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A new introduction in the 75th anniversary edition of George Orwell's classic novel about "thoughtcrime" landed at the center of the culture wars.
Writers are known for their words, but sometimes they’d rather not sign their real name to them. Many famous authors took on ...
George Orwell was the pen name of British writer Eric Blair, who once said that “every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against ...
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Orwell as a white man in the Raj Orwell was born in 1903 to Richard Walmesley Blair, a mid-level administrator in the British Indian Civil Service, overseeing the production of opium for export to ...
Parliament declares Edward V as illegitimate based on his parent’s alleged bigamous marriage. 1646: Thomas Fairfax’s New Model Army ...
Before He Was George Orwell, He Was Eric Blair, Police Officer Paul Theroux’s new novel, “Burma Sahib,” explores the writer’s formative experiences in colonial Myanmar.
Birth Eric Arthur Blair, popularly known by his pen name George Orwell, was born on June 25 in 1903 in Motihari in Bihar, which was at the time in Bengal Presidency Nascimento Pinto ...
Director Andy Serkis and his all-star cast are adapting George Orwell’s Animal Farm, and the film’s first teaser trailer jumps right into the muck. Watch as a star-studded cast turns into pigs ...
Andy Serkis on Reimagining George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ for a New Era The actor-turned-director's updated adaptation of the 1945 classic premiered at the Annecy animation film festival this ...
Donald Trump aims to rewrite America’s official history. George Orwell − who wrote, ‘Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.“ − would ...
BOBBY GEORGE has opened up on the passing of his great rival Eric Bristow – and admits he warned the darts great to slow down. Bristow died suddenly of a heart attack in 2018 aged just 60. Ge… ...