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by George Orwell
About 82 pages (24,733 words)
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Chapter 18 Summary

The subjects of this essay are children's books, beginning with Helen's Babies, a fabulously successful book in its day.

Orwell comments that children's books give one a kind of "false map" of the world, particularly focusing on the influence of America, in this regard. He thinks of images of a boy, with braces and patches, sitting in the corner of a schoolhouse and a tall man, spitting tobacco while reciting aphorisms while whittling. These are images taken from books like Tom Sawyer and Uncle Tom's Cabin. He recalls a song from a Scottish songbook, with a reference to an American "riding down from Bangor" on an Eastern train, his skin "bronzed with weeks of hunting in Maine.

Helen's Babies is a broad farce about a young bachelor in New York whose sister gives him her.....

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