Orwell On Truth by George Orwell (PDF)

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Over the course of his career, George Orwell wrote about many things, but no matter what he wrote the goal was to get at the fundamental truths of the world. He had no place for dissemblers, liars, conmen, or frauds, and he made his feelings well-known. In Orwell on Truth, excerpts from across Orwell’s career show how his writing and worldview developed over the decades, profoundly shaped by his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, and further by World War II and the rise of totalitarian states. In a world that seems increasingly like one of Orwell’s dystopias, a willingness to speak truth to power is more important than ever. With Orwell on Truth, readers get a collection of both powerful quotes and the context for them.

User’s Reviews

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐This is a classic book and one of several of his that are needed in this confusing time of Antifa, socialist attacks, etc. He warned us.

⭐Love Orwell and this book is solid, but it’s better to read Orwell’s books.

⭐I disliked this book so much that I got rid of it. I found it to be very partisan; for a book on Orwell and truth this was very one-sided and superficial. In all fairness, I think I had a very different viewpoint than the ones the author took for granted as “true” probably made me dislike the book even more (full disclosure). If you are very liberal and have faith in the mainstream media and believe that the biggest challenge to acquiring objective truth is Donald trump, you may like this book. Bottom line, you probably need to believe in all the above to have a chance of enjoying this biased book on “Truth”.

⭐I made the mistake of purchasing a book with a writer that attempts to use Orwells writings to fit his own political agenda. It failed and was cringe to read. Will be returning this. To clarify I’m not a republican or a democrat the political spectrum is controlled by small percentage of individuals which George orwell would be against if alive today.

⭐I started reading this book and couldn’t put it down. Orwell eloquently dismantled the main arguments against free speech, against democracy, and for moral relativism that have burgeoned in our present discourse.Most striking to me was that Orwell does this without ignoring or sugar coating the glaring deficiencies in western society (media propaganda, working class exploitation, imperialist history..etc)The content of this book is strictly excerpts from essays, letters, speeches or books of Orwell’s. Ranging from several pages to 2-3 paragraphs.I would highly recommend this book as a nice short read (2-3 hours) to develop a understanding of Orwell’s thought on Truth. For something more academic or in-depth I would recommend his actual essays and books.

⭐The man is a genius, and do we need him now. An excellent collection of excerpts from George Orwell’s essays, letters, radio broadcasts and books, assembled to speak to us today. As Adam Hochschild says in the introduction, “Orwell seems to have seen it all coming” — the falsehoods, the propaganda, the deceits, the lies. The excerpt near the end, from “Ninteen Eighty-Four,” drives it all home.

⭐Half the book is a slamOn trump. Not what I bought to read. Three thumbs down.

⭐This was just a cut and past of Orwell. Not helpful.

⭐This is an excellent little book that should be mandatory reading for any budding political journalist or author. It is an anthology of Orwell’s profound insights on such matters as populism, viciousness and dishonesty in politics, nationalism and partisanship, political deceit, a centralised press, self-censorship, gaining power by fraud, unclear language and doublethink. The latter Orwell explains is: “To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself.” Today we could probably sum this up as Trumpism.

⭐I always go and pay my respects to him In Sutton Courtenay village churchyard because he is buried ( under his birth name ) only 10 metres from my grandfather’s grave. I always feel that I’m acting rudely if I pay my respects to one and not the other. This pocket sized hardback contains articles and whatnot that George had penned and is a nice thing to thumb through to remind myself of what an astonishingly perceptive, free thinking, man George had been. His thoughts and observations are as empathetically wise today as they had been when he originally wrote them. The irony in all of this is that the societal paradoxes in human nature that he’d highlighted still endure irrespective of that. He has, at least, made me aware of their workings and not to be so gullible about falling into line with what is presented to us as being ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ just because of some subliminal political marketing.Eamonn

⭐This is more a compendium of his writings of his books when mentioning freedom and as such the parts miss out their much needed context so you only get half the message. I would still give it three stars but the introduction seems to force their own narrative and since it’s got nothing new if you’ve read all of Orwells books, feels like it’s simply using Orwells name to sell. I would recommend getting Notes on Nationalism; Politics and the english language; or; England your England over this.

⭐Enfin en Pléiade pour un écrivain très “actuel”. Et dans une belle édition.Ces romans sont des lectures indispensables de philosophie politique au même titre que les écrits de Gramsci.Ils introduisent parfaitement la façon dont le techno-capitalisme s’est s’installer jusque dans l’écriture.Oeuvre objet de nombreux commentaires chez Michéa.A prescient take on how we’re all in ‘the swamp’, whether by design or against our will. I wish I’d known of, & read, Orwell whilst growing up & this book should be required reading for all secondary/ high school pupils.

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