"no book is genuinely free from political bias" p.5
book, bias
1 of 18
"'You are a gentleman? [...] thereafter he took it into his head to treat me with compassion" p.12
gentleman, compassion
2 of 18
"His body might be in the spike, but his spirit soared far away, in the pure aether of the middle classes" p.19
body, spirit, middle-class
3 of 18
"he stepped lightly aside to avoid a puddle on the path" p.25
puddle
4 of 18
"When I saw the prisoner step aside to avoid the puddle, I saw the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting a life short when it is in full tide" p.25
prisoner, mystery, wrongness, life
5 of 18
"We all had a drink together, native and European alike, quite amicably. The dead man was a hundred yards away." p.29
drink, native, European, dead man
6 of 18
"I first grasped the hollowness, the futility of the white man's dominion in the East" p.36
hollowness, white man, dominion
7 of 18
"I was only an absurd puppet pushed to and fro by the will of the yellow faces behind" p.36
puppet, will, yellow
8 of 18
"when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys" p.36
tyrant, freedom
9 of 18
"an elephant was worth more than any damn Coringhee coolie" p.40
elephant, coolie
10 of 18
"the ordinary town proletariat [...] have always been ignored by novelists" p.51
proletariat, ignored
11 of 18
"it is assumed that foreigners of any one race are all alike" p.130
foreigners, alike
12 of 18
"foreigners are exactly the same figures of fun that they always were" p.140
foreigners, fun
13 of 18
"Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence" p.161
atrocities, disbelieve, evidence
14 of 18
"the brown-faced boy must be the thief" p. 165
brown boy, theif
15 of 18
"Whether the British ruling class are wicked or merely stupid is one of the most difficult questions of our time" p.176
ruling class, wicked, stupid
16 of 18
"literature is an attempt to influence the viewpoint of one's contemporaries by recording experience" p.215
literature, viewpoint, experience
17 of 18
"a seeming lack of perception that the patients were human beings" p.280
patients, human
18 of 18
Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
"'You are a gentleman? [...] thereafter he took it into his head to treat me with compassion" p.12
Back
gentleman, compassion
Card 3
Front
"His body might be in the spike, but his spirit soared far away, in the pure aether of the middle classes" p.19
Back
Card 4
Front
"he stepped lightly aside to avoid a puddle on the path" p.25
Back
Card 5
Front
"When I saw the prisoner step aside to avoid the puddle, I saw the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting a life short when it is in full tide" p.25
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