Along with a new biography by D.J. Taylor, a British historian, the books draw on letters discovered in the past 20 years between the writer and various paramours, as well as some written by ...

Now, a new book that reimagines Orwell’s time at Barnhill on the Isle of Jura, where he wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four, his final novel and cautionary tale of totalitarianism, is now due.. Mr Easton ...

‘Dystopia come to life’: How George Orwell wrote the book on Trump’s America. The dire predictions of Orwell’s classic novel, 1984, are becoming a disturbing reality 75 years later.

George Orwell gets his comeuppance in a new book about his first wife. Anna Funder’s ‘Wifedom’ focuses on Orwell’s first wife, Eileen, beginning with her influence on the creation of ...

English writer George Orwell was born on this day in 1903. Here is a quiz on one of the most well-known and prolific writers ...

Eric Arthur Blair, the man behind the pseudonym George Orwell, wrote about things he witnessed, ... His first book, Down and Out in Paris and London (1933), describes some of this time. 9.

A rare dissenter was Evelyn Waugh, who wrote to Orwell to say that he’d found the book morally inert. “You deny the soul’s existence (at least Winston does) and can only contrast matter with ...

Anna Funder's new book excoriates a truth unchanged from both before and after George Orwell's time: ... And 15 years before Orwell published his book, Eileen had written a poem about a dystopian ...

For about half an hour or so, Raoul Peck’s documentary “Orwell: 2+2=5” is amazingly restrained in the way it deals with author George Orwell, his seminal dystopian novel “1984” and its ...

Now, a new book that reimagines Orwell’s time at Barnhill on the Isle of Jura, where he wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four, his final novel and cautionary tale of totalitarianism, is now due ...