Orwell’s two best known books reflect his life-long hatred for totalitarian governments. Animal Farm, a modern east fable attacking Stalinism, and Nineteen Eighty-Four, his nightmare vision of ...

Orwell died in 1950 at 46 ... (he was unable at the height of his powers to get more than a $60 advance for a book). Doubtless today he would be equally unpopular for pointing out the moral ...

Can't stop thinking about the dystopian world of Big Brother in "1984" and want more of it? Here are 10 sci-fi novels with ...

George Orwell, edited by Peter Davison, intro. by Christopher Hitchens. Norton/Liveright, $39.95 (608p) ISBN 978-0-871-40410-7 Reviewed by David Brooks. George Orwell has become a literary saint ...

Judges described his writing as a heart-rending exploration of working class life and "the book Orwell would have wanted to win". The artist revealed the award has given him some legitimacy.

Published on June 8, 1949, and modeled after the real-life dystopia of life in the Soviet Union, Orwell’s ninth and ... which ...