Dear editor, "It is a beautiful thing, the destruction of words." In the book "1984," George Orwell's character, Syme, makes this comment when describing his employers, the misnomered Ministry of ...

A Hanging’ (1931), George Orwell. I will enlarge no more on the evidence ... then it is we who turn our “heroes” into clichés and even caricatures. Finally, I am not letting myself off the hook for ...

I was suddenly struck by the phrase “George Orwell was right,” referring to his seminal novel “1984.” So, I Googled to see if anyone else had the same idea and, if so, what they had to say.

Eric Arthur Blair, universally known as George Orwell, the genius behind the thought-provoking allegory Animal Farm, was born on June 25, 1903. What may surprise some is that this literary maestro ...

A George Orwell book checked out of a library in the United Kingdom 50 years ago was finally returned by a mortified borrower. The hard-cover book of George Orwell’s “Road to Wigan Pier” was ...

Speaking with Collider, screenwriter Nicholas Stoller said Serkis' Animal Farm will be a "darkly comic" yet family-friendly ...

75 years on, here’s all the ways the 1984 author’s legacy has been abused Seventy-five years after his death on January 21 1950, George Orwell is still used – and abused – as if he were ...

And chatter among the aristocracy, recorded by George Orwell in his own diary in June 1940, was that ‘Unity is going to have a baby’. But no birth records have ever been discovered ...

The hard-backed copy of George Orwell's Road to Wigan Pier was supposed to be back at Hull's Central Library in 1974. Katie Holdstock, from the city's libraries service, said the book would not be ...

London, United Kingdom - Seventy-five years after the death of Eric Blair, better known as George Orwell (1903-1950), his dystopian literary creations, in which he transformed political texts into art ...

The Champaran region in Bihar — known for being the launching ground for Mahatma Gandhi’s historic 1917 Civil Disobedience Movement — has another claim to fame: it is the birthplace of George Orwell, ...

"The suggestion that the federal government should be given retrospective powers to censor historical films and literature is an idea straight out of Orwell," Mr Begg told SkyNews.com.au.