Monday, August 17, 2020

George Orwell's Animal Farm on This Day in History


This day in history: The novella "Animal Farm" by George Orwell was first published on this day in 1945. Animal Farm is considered one of the top-most dystopian books on practically every list, alongside Orwell's 1945, Yevgeny Zamyatin's "WE", Huxley's "Brave New World", Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451", Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale", "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins and John Wyndham's "The Chrysalids."  

Time magazine chose the book as one of the 100 best English-language novels (1923 to 2005); it also featured at number 31 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels, and number 46 on the BBC's The Big Read poll. It won a Retrospective Hugo Award in 1996 and is included in the Great Books of the Western World selection.





Great audio, I listened to this years ago and I never forgot it. Christopher Hitchens talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about George Orwell. Drawing on his book Why Orwell Matters, Hitchens talks about Orwell's opposition to imperialism, fascism, and Stalinism, his moral courage, and his devotion to language. Along the way, Hitchens makes the case for why Orwell matters.
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2009/08/hitchens_on_orw.html

Listen to the entire audiobook of Orwell's 1984, something I recommend everyone read, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scqLliarGpM

Read or download 1984 at https://archive.org/details/Orwell1984preywo

Watch Christopher Hitchens on Why Orwell Matters at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY5Ste5xRAA

Read: 1984 The Book That Killed George Orwell By Robert McCrum

Eric Arthur Blair aka George Orwell by Jeff Riggenbach (1903–1950) Audio at https://mises.org/library/eric-arthur-blair-aka-george-orwell-1903%E2%80%931950
(George Orwell presents us with yet another case of a writer who was not himself a libertarian as we understand the term today, but whose last two novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four, have earned him a place in the libertarian tradition.)

Orwell’s Big Brother: Merely Fiction? by Murray N. Rothbard

What was Ayn Rand’s stance on George Orwell’s famous novel 1984? by Leonard Peikoff (podcast)

My hero: George Orwell by John Carey
Orwell was a truth-teller whose courage and sense of social justice made him a secular saint By John Carey 

The Connection Between George Orwell and Friedrich Hayek-A tale of two anti-authoritarians by Sheldon Richman 

Orwell's 1984 Still Matters, Though Not in the Way You Might Think
A Washington, D.C., readathon reminds us that the left once hated this anti-totalitarian classic. by Charles Paul Freund

From Spencer's 1884 to Orwell's 1984 by Henry Hazlitt

John Stossel: Orwell's Animal Farm & The Political Class

5 Ways George Orwell's 1984 Has Come True Since It Was Published 67 Years Ago by Tyler Durden

From 1944 to Nineteen Eighty-Four by Sheldon Richman

From ‘1984’ to ‘Atlas Shrugged’: When the News Boosts Book Sales By Emily Temple

Ayn Rand and "1984"

Discussion: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell with Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio

The genius of George Orwell by Jeremy Paxman 


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