BOOK REVIEW: Some Thoughts On the Common Toad by George OrwellThis collection is part of Penguin&rsq

BOOK REVIEW: Some Thoughts On the Common Toad by George Orwell

This collection is part of Penguin’s Great Ideas series, which I am steadily working my way through (previously I have read Thomas Paine’s pamphlet “Common Sense” - review here). I adore these little publications; the cover designs by David Pearson are some of the best he has ever done, and the full series is a great overview of some of the most influential essays and manifestos in (mostly) Western history.

Some Thoughts On the Common Toad is one of four George Orwell collections included in this project, and contains eight articles written between 1944 and 1947. Spoiler alert: the titular essay is not actually about toads – it’s about capitalism. …And toads.

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