Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It has been 76 years since "1984," George Orwell's warning about government control, censorship and the corruption of language, ...

George Orwell was the pseudonym for Eric Arthur Blair, who was born in Motihari, India, on June 25, 1903. His father, Richard Blair, was a British civil servant stationed in India. About a year after ...

People think they remember “1984.” They remember Big Brother's face on the poster. They remember "War is Peace" and the vague dread of surveillance. But ask them about the mechanics — how ...

A new adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984, directed by Dominic Hill and written by Chris Hannan, premieres at Glasgow’s ...

The organizations behind Banned Books Week based this year's theme, "Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights," on Orwell's sobering story to show we may be closer in real life to his dystopia than ...

George Orwell, whose real name was Eric Blair, was an English novelist, essayist, and critic best known for his books Animal Farm and 1984. He was a man of strong opinions who addressed some of the ...