George Orwell Wrote ‘1984’ While ... and it was written by a man whose own life turned into ... “But the truly frightening thing was the emaciation of his body,” Orwell wrote in the book.

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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 ...

For many, “1984” by George Orwell is one of those books. Its impact on science-fiction and pop culture is far-reaching. “Big Brother,” “Thought Police” and even “ Orwellian ” are ...

When Orwell was wounded at the front, she rushed to his side, but her presence there — like most of what she did in Spain — went unremarked in his book. “Orwell spends over 2,500 words ...

My books of a lifetime vary almost weekly, ... among the moderns I return most frequently to George Orwell. His essays cover everything: tea, language, Dickens, ... written in April 1946.

1984 is a dystopian masterpiece written by George Orwell - and unearthed accounts reveal that the author may have drawn inspiration for notorious torture cell Room 101 from his time at the BBC.

George Orwell milking a goat, circa 1938. In “Orwell’s Roses,” Rebecca Solnit searches for the underpinnings of Orwell’s joy in his pastoral life in rural Wallington, where he kept ...

George Orwell had a traumatic relationship with the sea. In August 1947, while he was writing Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) on the island of Jura in the Scottish Hebrides, he went on a fishing trip with ...

George Orwell: Why is 1984 author buried in ... , and has been written by our American ... parish churchyard to pay tribute at the final resting spot of English novelist George Orwell.