A review by joshrskinner
The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984 by Dorian Lynskey

4.0

Tremendous resource and overall entertaining read. The final section is the weakest, but it is still good. Political biases pop up towards the end and some sections were a bit daunting for someone like me with little knowledge of contemporary English politics, but this is a solid, solid work of scholarship.

Hopefully, there will be many secondary English teachers who supplement their teaching of 1984 with sections from this text. I know that I will be one.