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Boing Boing on MSN"No worse employment exists" - Two Orwell essays depict brutal reality of 1930s working-class lifeTo commemorate the 75th anniversary of George Orwell's death, The New Statesman has published two essays by the author of ...
Raoul Peck's essay film about the creation of "1984" uses George Orwell's words and writings as a jumping-off point to chart the rise of modern fascism.
Winston Churchill and George Orwell were very different men, but a new biography argues that they were twin pillars fighting for democratic freedom.
It's been 75 years since author George Orwell penned his final novel: "1984." I reread the novel this year and Orwell's vision of a totalitarian society is scarier than ever.
Americans still read George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” 75 years after it was first published on June 8, 1949. At the time, the year 1984 was far in the future — now it’s 40 years ...
Orwell typed for hours upstairs, sitting on his iron bedstead in a tatty dressing gown, chain-smoking shag tobacco. In May 1947, he felt he had a third of a draft, and in November, a completed one.
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 ...
Three years before writing '1984,' George Orwell penned a letter detailing the thesis of his great novel and warning of the rise of totalitarian police states. Skip to Main Content.
George Orwell’s work and life story are well known. A new book unearths details about his wife, Eileen Blair, who helped publish his work and died at 39. (Associated Press) ...
English writer George Orwell, whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair, was born in India at the turn of the 20th Century and went on to write commentary on the threat of totalitarianism, democratic ...
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 ...
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