With my reading list for the coming days
George Orwell: Essays (Penguin Modern Classics)
Just ordered. Hopefully, it should have Orwell's reflections on Gandhi.
No Gods, No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism
With Noam Chomsky's intro. Necessary reading if you want to understand the development of Anarchism.
Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing by Margaret Atwood
Wonderful as always.
A Mathematician's Apology by G Hardy , introduction by C P Snow
Have you wondered what Hardy is apologising for?
The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
The finest novel on anarchistic themes. Third reading.
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