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James Wood writes that George Orwell, a Puritan radical who deplored poverty but detested privilege even more, yearned for an uncorrupted, pre-modern England.
James Wood
James Wood, a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2007, teaches at Harvard. His latest book is “ Serious Noticing,” a collection of essays.
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