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 ...

It's been 75 years since author George Orwell penned his final novel: "1984." I reread the novel this year and Orwell's vision of a totalitarian society is scarier than ever.

Orwell’s “1984” has been applauded by everyone from Noam Chomsky to Lee Harvey Oswald — and regarded suspiciously by Stalinists and J. Edgar Hoover and Christopher Hitchens alike — and ...

When George Orwell penned his now-famous dystopian novel, “1984” — released 67 years ago in June 1949 — it was intended as fiction. The futuristic setting is more than three… ...

At the end of 1984, Orwell had this amazing appendix which his early US editors wanted to cut and he insisted that the book couldn’t be published without it. It’s a short history of Newspeak ...

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 ...

George Orwell, the author of 1984 and Animal Farm ullstein bild via Getty Images. According to Orwell’s son, Richard Blair, the writer thought his novel would “either be a best seller or the ...

— George Orwell, 1984 Tread cautiously: the fiction of George Orwell (Jun. 25, 1903-Jan. 21, 1950) has become an operation manual for the omnipresent, modern-day surveillance state .

Double think. Newspeak. Thought crime. Memory hole. These are the remembered phrases of George Orwell’s dystopian novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” about a futuristic totalitarian state run by ...

Unsurprisingly, given that it culminated in both his masterpiece and his death, Orwell’s time on the island has been picked over by biographers, but Orwell’s Island: George, Jura and 1984, by ...

When George Orwell's novel 1984 was published in June 1949, the book was an immediate success. It sold more than a quarter of a million copies in the U.K. and the U.S. in the first six months.

Orwell's 1984 is a warning against Bernie Sanders-style socialism, not against anything having to do with Donald Trump.