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Sometimes called the conscience of a generation, Orwell is best known for two novels: Animal Farm and 1984. Both books, published toward the end of Orwell’s life, are often assigned to middle and high ...
Orwell wrote his short, shocking novel at a time when it was considered scientifically inadmissible for animals to be granted ...
Vladimir Putin’s encounter with Donald Trump in Anchorage summons bad memories of past summits in Munich or Yalta, in which ...
Like the even more celebrated "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (1949), Orwell's "Animal Farm" — marking its 80th anniversary this month ...
Eighty years after George Orwell's biting political satire exposed the horrors of life in the Soviet Union, there is still ...
In WWII, George Orwell at the BBC and Subhas Chandra Bose on Azad Hind Radio clashed over the airwaves. From London’s counter ...
Animal Farm's 80th anniversary reminds us of Orwell's enduring influence. Dive into the narratives that have shaped our ...
Written by visionary George Orwell, "Animal Farm," a political fable still studied all over the world, was published on this day in history, Aug. 17, 1945.
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 ...
In the annals of dystopian literature, two names stand as towering sentinels of warning: George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. Their visions, often treated as opposing prophecies, together form ...
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 ...
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 ...