George Orwell endured a case of tuberculosis and a near-death experience while writing Nineteen Eighty-Four. | Ivan Radic, Flickr // CC BY 2.0 George Orwell’s 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four has ...

Even if you haven’t read the book, chances are you’ve heard at least one of these phrases, because elements of the nightmarish vision evoked in George Orwell’s novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four ...

On June 8, 1972, the photograph of a naked, frightened child running from a napalm attack during the Vietnam War was taken.

He ultimately aims to freeze the world and prevent anyone or anything from changing. Nineteen Eighty-Four: "It was a refrain that was often heard in moments of overwhelming emotion. Partly it was ...

The brainwave to pulp them and turn them into copies of George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” came when Shrigley re-read the dystopian novel during the pandemic — 2020 marked 70 years ...

This would culminate in victory in the Cold War in 1989. As someone who had read Nineteen Eighty-Four long before the year it describes, I felt more relief in 1984 that Orwell’s warnings had ...

Those words were first published 75 years ago in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, one of the greatest political novels, and certainly the most quoted, of the last century. Phrases ...

In his 1949 review, Lionel Trilling writes that George Orwell’s “1984” is about a state power that was coercing, not ...

My copy of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four has cardboard covers. Front and back, the book is decorated with cheesy reproduced paintings. Big Brother wears an evil goatee and eye makeup.

So if one were to hazard, for example, that novelist Thomas Pynchon's foreword to the new Plume edition of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" just happens to be the finest, deepest, sanest new 20 pages around ...