By: Jean Seaton, director of the Orwell Foundation and professor of media history at the University of Westminster / The Daily Telegraph Seventy-five years after his death on January 21, 1950, George ...

You'll have to pardon those slightly sardonic quotes, because I'm afraid this is that kind of ... that Communist revolutions inevitably led to the outcome satirized in George Orwell's Animal Farm - a ...

Inscribed with quotes from “Nineteen Eighty-Four ... Kingdom’s Royal Mint is releasing a new coin honoring George Orwell on the 75th anniversary of his death. The £2 (roughly $2.45 ...

Eric Arthur Blair, universally known as George Orwell, the genius behind the thought-provoking allegory Animal Farm, was born on June 25, 1903. What may surprise some is that this literary maestro ...

A George Orwell book checked out of a library in the United Kingdom 50 years ago was finally returned by a mortified borrower. The hard-cover book of George Orwell’s “Road to Wigan Pier” was ...

I was suddenly struck by the phrase “George Orwell was right,” referring to his seminal novel “1984.” So, I Googled to see if anyone else had the same idea and, if so, what they had to say.

George Orwell, Oxfordshire author of 1984 and Animal Farm, will be celebrated on a new £2 coin design. The famous novelist, poet and journalist, whose real name was Eric Blair, grew up and ...

75 years on, here’s all the ways the 1984 author’s legacy has been abused Seventy-five years after his death on January 21 1950, George ... 3. Orwell wasn’t really a socialist Orwell at ...

And chatter among the aristocracy, recorded by George Orwell in his own diary in June 1940, was that ‘Unity is going to have a baby’. But no birth records have ever been discovered ...

The hard-backed copy of George Orwell's Road to Wigan Pier was supposed to be back at Hull's Central Library in 1974. Katie Holdstock, from the city's libraries service, said the book would not be ...

“1984,” Robert Icke’s and Duncan Macmillan’s 2013 dramatic adaption of George Orwell’s iconic 1949 novel, looks at life in a futuristic, authoritarian society where citizens are under ...

He took the name George Orwell ... and all other socialist dissent. Although not a Trotskyite, Orwell had to flee from Spain in fear of his life. The experience instilled in him an enduring ...