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Like the even more celebrated "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (1949), Orwell's "Animal Farm" — marking its 80th anniversary this month ...

George Orwell’s reflections on power, truth, and society offer a hauntingly relevant insight into the paradox of being good ...

Sometimes called the conscience of a generation, Orwell is best known for two novels: Animal Farm and 1984. Both books, ...

Animal Farm is a melancholy reflection on the corruption of revolution – and the need to keep looking for a better one.

Douglas Rooks’ recent op-ed on Trump’s goal of an ignorant electorate (Aug. 7) brought two authors to mind: Franklin D. Roosevelt and George Orwell. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945.

A critically acclaimed Australian stage adaptation of George Orwell's novel 1984 attracts full houses as it tours across the ...

As he sat down to write "1984," George Orwell was reeling from the death of a wife and suffering from a lung ailment. ZUMAPRESS.com Jura is a small island off the coast of Scotland, famous for two ...

Orwell would surely notice that Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, with its tranquil populations of pretty people living in a pleasing soma tupor, was closer to the mark than 1984.

WIFEDOM: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life. By Anna Funder. Knopf. 464 pages. $32. Throughout my reading life, I have returned to George Orwell’s work for the pleasure and power of his words and ...

George Orwell was not a language fascist: Why we keep misinterpreting his words Will Self's attack on Orwell reveals the dramatic divide in contemporary fiction over clarity vs. embroidery ...

Orwell's 1984 is a warning against Bernie Sanders-style socialism, not against anything having to do with Donald Trump.