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A category that Orwell did not investigate is “bad bad books,” required reading despite their badness. We read them for the profit of understanding their time.
Orwell's dystopian novel featured a dictatorial leader supported by an intense cult of personality manufactured by the ...
George Orwell’s estate has been accused of attempting to censor 1984 by adding a “trigger warning” preface to the 75th ...
George Orwell ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images The documentary serves partly as biography of Orwell, who was born Eric Arthur Blair in what is now the state of Bihar in India.
He put himself under his own analysis, and he did that very early on.” George Orwell in 1941 ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images Orwell described himself as a democratic socialist ...
In George Orwell’s search for isolation from a troubled world on a Scottish island and the pursuit of pleasure in simple things, photographer Craig Easton has followed. Now, a new book that ...
In the hallowed grounds of All Saints’ church in Sutton Courtenay, Oxon, George Orwell must be spinning in his grave. His classic novel 1984 laid out the framework for an authoritarian dystopian ...
That's right, George Orwell created this book with the intent to show people how the masses can be manipulated through propaganda. A seriously heavy topic that wouldn't be so easily digestible if ...
Even a fellow Republican, Representative Don Bacon of Nebraska, couldn’t resist: “Putin started this war,” he posted on X, adding, “I don’t accept George Orwell’s doublethink.” ...
And he goes: ‘Oh, OK!’” Orwell has received some backlash over the years for comments about Jewish people in his book Down and Out in Paris and London. “Was he antisemitic?” Blair asked.
Remember what George Orwell, Arthur Koestler and many others ... spreading from this bonfire of international law and morality? Bild vergrößern German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on November 9 ...
A CITY solicitor walked in the footsteps of George Orwell to mark a milestone as he spoke of how the author sought to look more deeply into the lives of the working class. Gary Harper ...