The duty to stand aside: Nineteen Eighty-Four and the wartime quarrel of George Orwell and Alex Comfort 9781849353182, 9781849353175, 1849353182

The Duty to Stand Aside tells the story of one of the most intriguing yet little-known literary-political feuds -- and f

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The duty to stand aside: Nineteen Eighty-Four and the wartime quarrel of George Orwell and Alex Comfort
 9781849353182, 9781849353175, 1849353182

Table of contents :
The moral lens --
A clash of temperaments --
A public "set-to" --
A disagreement in verse --
Common ground --
The sociopathic state --
The "snitch list" --
"The act of standing aside" --
Conclusion.

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