Those words were first published 75 years ago in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, one of the greatest political novels, and certainly the most quoted, of the last century. Phrases ...

George Orwell's estate has been accused of censorship after a 'trigger warning' was added to his classic novel Nineteen ...

George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four has topped online bookshop bestseller lists in Russia this year after Putin's invasion of Ukraine drew comparisons. The 1949 novel is set in a ...

Martin Freeman kicks of a day of readings from Nineteen Eighty-Four, celebrating the 75th anniversary of Orwell's great dystopian novel, as part of Radio 4's 'Orwell vs Kafka' season. Other ...

When George Orwell sat down in a remote Scottish farmhouse to write Nineteen Eighty-Four, in 1948, he wasn’t trying to predict the future. Instead he was issuing a warning. Whether we live in ...

The more the world in which Nineteen Eighty-Four was written has changed, the more it has stayed the same. By Robert Colls “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face ...

More than 75 years after the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Orwellian phrase “Big Brother is watching you” has become so familiar to most of the Taiwanese public that even those who haven’t ...