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When you‘ve about had a bellyful of the “truthiness” out there(I know I have ) this book provides some relief.Made up of essays & selections from 1984 & Animal Farm, it is all relevant today.Christopher Hitchens said of him “Orwell personally encountered the 3 great malevolent movements of the 20th century-European Imperialism,fascism,& communism & took the right stand on all 3.”Highly recommended.

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ― George Orwell

A nice pocket-book sized collection of excerpts from Orwell‘s essays and fiction. A good introduction to Orwell if you‘re not ready to jump into his complete works.

It is eerie to see how many of Orwell's arguments and observations about lies, propaganda and authoritarism as well as the weak side of Western style democracy are relevant to the present moment.