A review by rkapil7
A Collection of Essays by George Orwell

5.0

Pure Orwellian wisdom. The essays are from particular time and place and tell you about the English civilisation in that period (such as you will encounter his analysis of some of the writers of that era or the mention of USSR sympathy among the British left in that period) but also the universal truths of human civilisation and politics as a whole such as freedom of press or echo-chamber of Leftists. The process of knowing the literal history is always spiritual. Orwell does that with utter wisdom - when he writes on the 'facts' he only writes those facts which are crucial, the narrative development (in negative sense) is nil also when he writes on what should/n't be - the ethical compass that he uses is now (2016) mostly about settled debates - such as opposing totalitarianism. Pure genius.