While most of us know George Orwell as an authoritative critic of totalitarianism, few people know he was a committed ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. George Orwell died in 1950, but he’s in the newspapers nearly every day. In the past few years alone, the ...

George Orwell’s political ... are usually wrong,” wrote Orwell, and so we have to consider 1984 less as a foretelling and more as a warning. That said, the book is also a repudiation of ...

While in Southwold, Orwell wrote the 1935 novel A Clergyman's Daughter, which is set in a fictionalised version of the town. PA/Penguin books George Orwell's novel 1984 is regarded as a classic of ...