Orwell’s enchantment with socialist politics, which felt instinctual rather than ideological, informed his early novels and reportage but would be tested when, in 1936, he volunteered to fight ...

GEORGE ORWELL was about two and a half years older than myself. He once complained I was too fond of drawing attention to a difference in age that put him, he felt, at a disadvantage.

George Orwell gets his comeuppance in a new book about his first wife. ... Early on, Funder tells us that “Orwell’s work is precious to me. ... Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life. By Anna Funder.

In “Burma Sahib,” the renowned novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux imagines the life of young Eric Blair (the future George Orwell) when he was a novice police officer in colonial Burma.At ...

Interest in George Orwell and his dystopian fiction is high ... Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life. By Anna Funder. Knopf; 464 pages; $32. ... Orwell and early biographers wrote Eileen out of history; ...