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 ...

And he goes: ‘Oh, OK!’” Orwell has received some backlash over the years for comments about Jewish people in his book Down and Out in Paris and London. “Was he antisemitic?” Blair asked.

George Orwell ... published. The book opens abruptly with what is considered one of the best opening lines in literary history, propelling the audience directly into Orwell’s fictional world.

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 ...