A famous Orwell line that still resonates today, as a warning about power, truth, and our own willingness to look away.

By Mark Buckton - Taipei In his dystopian novel 1984, George Orwell depicted a world where truth was malleable, information was weaponised and citizens lived under the shadow of relentless ideological ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. English writer George Orwell, whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair, was born in India at the turn of the 20th Century and went on ...

Like other historical figures, such as Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, Orwell has been a magnet for falsely attributed quotes, some of which Snopes has debunked before. In this case, however, ...

The UCSB theater Animal Farm (Tatty Hennessy adapted it from George Orwell’s 1945 novella) was submitted for production by ...

Americans still read George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” 75 years after it was first published on June 8, 1949. At the time, the year 1984 was far in the future — now it’s 40 years in the past.

In October 1945, George Orwell responded to a letter from Mr J. Stewart Cook in the leftwing weekly newspaper Tribune calling ...

There’s nothing new about calling George Orwell’s most influential novel prescient. But the focus has usually been on his ...

Fame means not all literary figure marks are created equal, says Charlotte Colthurst of Bird & Bird in examining an EUIPO ...

The letters of George Orwell’s North East-born wife have been published in a new book.