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The OBR's bleak futurism prompted writer Paul Baldwin to make a few predictions of his own, with Orwell's 1984 re-imagined as ...
George Orwell’s '1984' is no exception. In fact, there are several ways in which his novel has come true in our modern society, even though the book was published in 1949.
National Archives via Wikimedia Commons Orwell wrote 1984 while battling tuberculosis on the Isle of Jura in Scotland, aware that his condition was deteriorating as he wrote the novel, Taylor says.
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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.
While he struggled on Jura to finish 1984, Orwell apparently returned to “Such, Such Were the Joys,” his long and excoriating essay about his miserable years at St. Cyprian’s boarding school.
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 ...
History is written by the winners.” As Orwell wrote in “1984,” his final, dystopian novel, “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” ...
Sheryl Crow protests what she considers to be 'The New Normal' in a song about President Trump, artificial intelligence and ...