Spanning fascism, nationalism, censorship, and the corruption of language itself, this collection draws together five essays in which George Orwell examines the fragile machinery that keeps a society honest, and how swiftly it can be dismantled.

Written against the backdrop of the War and the ideological battles of the 1930s and '40s, Orwell dissects democracy's weaknesses without ever surrendering his belief in it.

Nearly a century later, the warnings in Orwell’s Fascism and Democracy feel uncomfortably familiar.