George Orwell ... depicted in 1984 is, ultimately, “an impassioned defence of human rights”, says Prof David Dwan. A self-proclaimed democratic socialist and a humanist, Orwell was among ...

What a difference a decade makes. In 1940 George Orwell published his eighth book, the essay collection Inside the Whale, but when the Nazis in the same year drew up a list of Britons to be arrested ...

George Orwell was the most influential British writer since 1945. Many of his neologisms – such as ‘Big Brother’, ‘Thought Police’, ‘Room 101’, ‘Newspeak’, ‘memory hole ...

But any list like this has to include George Orwell, the English essayist and the author of two of the most famous political ...

George Orwell was a visionary author most known for his anti-totalitarianism texts 1984 and Animal Farm ... Alongside novels, Orwell also wrote poems and essays exploring themes of warring ...