George Orwell ... depicted in 1984 is, ultimately, “an impassioned defence of human rights”, says Prof David Dwan. A self-proclaimed democratic socialist and a humanist, Orwell was among ...

While I was in the middle of re-reading George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty ... always listening in the background. A speakwrite, as described in the book, certainly exists these days ...

George Orwell’s 1984 is one of those works that seems to become more relevant as time goes on. When I first read it, I was struck by how many of the novel’s central warnings—from the ...

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.

Shortly before he died George ... between what Orwell saw in 1937 and his vision of 1948 seems slight. In the Spanish War he saw words become the instrument of many lies. In 1984 he imagined ...