Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Big Brother, the all-seeing dictator in 1984, as seen in the film version of the novel released in 1984 starring John Hurt as ...

Remember high school English class reading assignments? Sometimes those dense classics were even enough to make the booklovers in the classroom groan. But every now and then, an assigned reading would ...

When I was growing up, the lessons of 1984 – the dystopian novel by George Orwell – were all thought to pertain to the Soviet Union. Big Brother was Josef Stalin – controlling the thoughts of his ...

Big Brother. 2+2=5. The memory hole. "Truth isn’t truth." Sound familiar? They’re from George Orwell’s dark masterpiece, "1984." OK, not all of those phrases. That last one, "Truth isn’t truth," ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Lev Mendes THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH The Biography of George Orwell’s “1984” By Dorian Lynskey ...

As he sat down to write "1984," George Orwell was reeling from the death of a wife and suffering from a lung ailment. ZUMAPRESS.com Jura is a small island off the coast of Scotland, famous for two ...

Orwell himself could be sentimental about his longing to escape (“Thinking always of my island in the Hebrides,” he’d once written in his wartime diary) or wonderfully blunt. In the aftermath of ...

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BERLIN, GERMANY - AUGUST 01: A protester holds a German translation of George Orwell's book '1984' as he demonstrates for journalists' rights on August 1, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. After two German ...

Having left an indelible mark on popular culture, we explore five songs that successfully evoked George Orwell's dystopian ...

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A fresh printing of Orwell's masterpiece at the Hong Kong book fair: This was the book the world needed to read. Credit: Aaron Tam / AFP via Getty Images Saying George Orwell's 1984 is my favorite ...