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 given ...

The anniversary of the publication of George Orwell’s greatest novel is an opportunity to recognise literature’s capacity to provoke and instruct, and to inspire independent thought and action. (Photo ...

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. A red ...

Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece envisaged a world dominated by three rival blocs that are constantly at war with one another. U.J. Alexander/Shutterstock There’s nothing new about calling George Orwell ...

The more the world in which Nineteen Eighty-Four was written has changed, the more it has stayed the same. By Robert Colls “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face ...

Almost from the moment it was published, George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four became an international bestseller, as well as a literary talisman of resistance to the Soviet Union’s ...

Sales of George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” have surged in the wake of the N.S.A. surveillance revelations. (Ian Crouch examines the novel’s relevance today.) Ringo Starr is turning “Octopus’s ...