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 ...

A dystopia is an imagined society characterized by poverty, squalor, oppression and often a nightmare quality. It’s the ...

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

In 1936, British author George Orwell (real name Eric Arthur Blair) went to the Spanish Civil War as an enthusiastic supporter of the socialist dream and a hater of fascism - he returned injured ...

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 ...

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 ...

4: 'We are the dead.' Adjoa Andoh continues a day of readings celebrating Orwell's great dystopian masterpiece.

2: 'If there is hope, it lies in the proles.'2: 'If there is hope, it lies in the proles.' ...

The brainwave to pulp them and turn them into copies of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four came when Shrigley re-read the dystopian novel during the pandemic—2020 marked 70 years since ...

Just 750 copies of this lovingly designed edition of George Orwell’s classic novel have been made, commemorating the original book’s enduring legacy This year, George Orwell’s seminal book Nineteen ...