George Orwell wrote of Mark Benney's 1940 novel, The Big Wheel, "Its distinctive mark is its acceptance of the lumpenproletarian outlook, its assumption that the world of narks, pimps, eightpenny kips, punchdrunk boxers and rival race-gangs is as eternal as the pyramids."
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The Big Wheel, by Mark Benney (1940)
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