The author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four witnessed some of the early 20th century’s most significant flashpoints, ...

Journalism and Letters of George Orwell," which first published in 1968 and was co-edited by Sonia Orwell — his wife — and Ian Angus. The quote in question appeared on page 515 of that book ...

where he married editorial assistant Sonia Brownell from his hospital bed. The writer died three months later at age 46. Blair, whom Orwell had adopted with his first wife, Eileen O’Shaughnessy ...

Journalism and Letters of George Orwell," which first published in 1968 and was co-edited by Sonia Orwell — his wife — and Ian Angus. The quote in question appeared on page 515 of that book ...

George Orwell might have a sense of "deja vu" about the state of politics if he was alive today, his son has told the BBC. Richard Blair was speaking on the 120th anniversary of the writer's birth.

Of course there is no real George Orwell – it was the pen name of Eric Blair – but he was a writer and political commentator who is very hard to pin down. Ever since his early death in 1950 ...

George Orwell was not born as such; his given name was Eric Arthur Blair. He was born on June 25 ... most notably Celia Paget ...

George Orwell escaped to a remote Scottish ... and he would write or type for the morning Orwell's adopted son, Richard Blair, doesn't remember it quite like that. He was just turning two when ...

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 ...

George Orwell’s new novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four” (Harcourt, Brace), confirms its author in the special, honorable place he holds in our intellectual life. Orwell’s native gifts are perhaps ...

The adaptation has been officially endorsed by the Orwell Estate with Richard Blair, George Orwell’s son, calling it “sensational” with a “brilliant cast”. The cast also features Romesh ...

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 ...