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So you haven't read Animal Farm by George Orwell? Well, get ready for a highly political propaganda-filled thriller... about ...
While it is hard to quantify the program’s effect in absolute terms, its history offers valuable lessons for today, not least ...
Orwell’s novel is not a particularly comforting tale but one that helps us to understand ourselves better today. “Those who ...
Orwell's novel “1984”, written in 1949, predicted a dystopia where language, memory, and truth were controlled by the state.
The 2025 honorees for the Albie Awards are a trio of acclaimed festival documentaries. Academy Award-nominated filmmaker ...
As he sat down to write "1984," George Orwell was reeling from the death of a wife and suffering from a lung ailment. ZUMAPRESS.com Jura is a small island off the coast of Scotland, famous for two ...
WIFEDOM: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life. By Anna Funder. Knopf. 464 pages. $32. Throughout my reading life, I have returned to George Orwell’s work for the pleasure and power of his words and ...
George Orwell (a.k.a. Eric Blair) and Evelyn Waugh were born in 1903 to middle-class parents, both taught school during the lean years, and both became successful authors and bitter satirists of ...