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Jun 24, 2024 · His body of work has become a compass to help us navigate our way in times of democratic recession and backsliding, as is the case worldwide. Among all his books, the one that has left the deepest impact on generations of readers across borders is, no doubt, Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Jun 10, 2024 · The 1984 of Orwell’s imagination resembled the Soviet Union of his lifetime in many ways. But he intended the book as a warning about what could happen in the West, too. The Soviet Union is long gone, yet much of what Orwell feared is coming to pass in the free world today, not under a totalitarian dictatorship but through the pervasive power ...
Jun 8, 2024 · Celebrating 75 years of 1984. Saturday 08 June 2024. This Saturday, 8th June, George Orwell’s seminal novel turns seventy-five. Here’s our guide to what’s on this month – and how you can get involved in the celebrations. In Nineteen Eighty-Four, writing is the ultimate act of subversion.
Jun 6, 2024 · Though an accomplished essayist, Orwell is best known for 1984 and Animal Farm, his 1945 satire of Stalinist Russia. Born in Bengal when the region was under British colonial rule, Orwell...
1 day ago · The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.
Jun 10, 2024 · Those words were first published 75 years ago in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, one of the greatest political novels, and certainly the most quoted, of the last century.
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Jun 8, 2024 · Communism has fallen but, according to the BBC’s Steve Rosenberg, Russian security services still appear to be spooked by a shabby little building in Ivanovo calling itself the George Orwell Library. No one talks any more of the Laws of Motion of Capital, and those who do don’t believe it.
