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  1. Book club formed in Britain 1936 to circulate
  2. to its members political books intended to
  3. counter the upsurge of fascism. Its founder
  4. was the publisher Victor Gollancz. It
  5. produced mainly non-fiction, of which an
  6. example is George Orwell's The Road to Wigan
  7. Pier 1937. It was disbanded 1948.
  8.