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A stage adaption of George Orwell’s dystopian novel has been packing them in, as its themes – newspeak, thought police and ...
A new introduction in the 75th anniversary edition of George Orwell's classic novel about "thoughtcrime" landed at the center of the culture wars.
Orwell's 1984 is a warning against Bernie Sanders-style socialism, not against anything having to do with Donald Trump.
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 ...
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.
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of George Orwell's death, The New Statesman has published two essays by the author of ...
As British journalist Dorian Lynskey.reveals in a new book, “The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell’s ‘1984’ ” (Doubleday), out now, the real story is more complicated ...
1984, by George Orwell, read by Andrew Garfield, Cynthia Erivo, Andrew Scott, Tom Hardy, Chukwudi Iwuji and others. “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood,” Winston ...
When George Orwell's novel 1984 was published in June 1949, the book was an immediate success. It sold more than a quarter of a million copies in the U.K. and the U.S. in the first six months.
Unsurprisingly, given that it culminated in both his masterpiece and his death, Orwell’s time on the island has been picked over by biographers, but Orwell’s Island: George, Jura and 1984, by ...
In 1984, Apple said 1984 wouldn't be like 1984.George Orwell's novel describes a dystopian surveillance society as a warning, and Apple positioned itself as a counter to that disturbing future.