In January 1943, in a short essay published in The New Statesman and Nation, George Orwell surveyed his personal hoard of political pamphlets—a collection that eventually numbered nearly three thousand—and declared it to be “practically all trash.” “There is totalitarian rubbish and paranoiac rubbish,” he wrote, “but in each case it is rubbish.” Pamphlets—paperbound booklets […]

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