Hartley, not Orwell, foresaw today's tyranny

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When I first read L.P. Hartley’s neglected dystopian novel Facial Justice, published in 1960, I found it whimsical and utterly implausible. Rereading it after six decades, I find it one of the sharpest warnings of the 20th century. John Sutherland, introducing the 2014 Penguin Classics edition,...