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 ...

To know more about Orwell, continue reading this insightful biography on him. On the account of his personal ... It was after this experience that he took his pen name 'George Orwell'. This name ...

George Orwell, born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903, adopted his pen name from a traditional English name and a river in Suffolk. Orwell's early life included service in the Indian Imperial Police and ...

Peter Marshall: Down with the Ox Tax! - Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War by Lyndal Roper The Soviet Union might seem the last place that the art duo Gilbert & George would achieve ...

He took the name George Orwell, shortly before its publication. This was followed by his first novel, 'Burmese Days', in 1934. An anarchist in the late 1920s, by the 1930s he had begun to consider ...

Shortly before he died George Orwell asked that no one write his biography. Though much of his writing, even fiction, had been autobiographical, he valued privacy most of all the English virtues ...

coup de grâce: The dilemma that underlies such doubts persists. It is not unique to George Orwell. Scepticism offers one way of resolving it by denying the possibility of fact. Denials of this kind ...

George Orwell has written 2 shows including Animal Farm (Source Material), 1984 (Source Material).

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 ...

Presenter of Radio 4's Front Row, Mark Lawson, considers George Orwell's time at the BBC. John Simpson and Hilary Spurling discuss George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. Duration: 28:00 'It's like ...

It's unclear how any diversion would be enough to sufficiently distract the all-encompassing monitoring and thought-control network that Orwell describes in 1984, but we digress. The Big Brother ...