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 ...

Robert Harris 1984, George Orwell. 1984, I think, is the most influential book ever written, and so you could say the greatest book ever written. I remember reading it as a teenager and being ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...