Aug 8th, 2008 · Previously unpublished George Orwell diaries are being released online as a daily blog. The first entry, from Aug. 9, 1938, will appear online Saturday, exactly 70 years after Orwell wrote it. The diaries shed light on European history and Orwell's life.
Sep 16th, 2007 · Jack Kerouac, George Orwell and Sylvia Plath are just a few of the authors whose books were turned down by the Alfred A. Knopf publishing house. Researchers going through the Knopf archives have come across their rejection letters, as well as a few others.
Sep 22nd, 2006 · Most people these days think of George Orwell as the author of high school reading staples Animal Farm and 1984. But author Lawrence Wright says that Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language," is the piece of writing to which he most often returns.
Aug 17th, 2005 · George Orwell's famous novel Animal Farm was published 60 years ago Wednesday. Alex Chadwick pays tribute to the dark satire of the novel, which uses animals to depict the worst aspects of Russia's Bolshevik Revolution and the rise of communist dictator Joseph Stalin.
Jul 19th, 2005 · A new book explores Myanmar's people and brutal military junta by retracing George Orwell's path through Burma, where he lived as a young man in the 1920s.