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.

George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984,” first published in 1949, anticipated our present moment all too well. As part of Winston Smith’s harrowing “re-education” process at the ...

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.

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 ...

The OBR's bleak futurism prompted writer Paul Baldwin to make a few predictions of his own, with Orwell's 1984 re-imagined as ...

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.

Maybe Audible has made 2024 America’s “1984,” with our freshly reconsidered antiheroes and love amid climate collapse. But not George Orwell’s.