Out of the ordinary : how everyday life inspired a nation and how it can again
Stears, Marc2021
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From the end of WWI to the 1950s, a group of British writers and artists including George Orwell, Barbara Jones, and Dylan Thomas forged a politics that resisted the empty idealism of their age. Celebrating the wisdom and pragmatism of ordinary life, they offered a remedy for the destructive polarization that afflicts us again today.
Cambridge : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021.Cambridge : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021.
240 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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9780674743878 (hbk)
306.0941
English
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