The anniversary of the publication of George Orwell’s greatest novel is an opportunity to recognise literature’s capacity to provoke and instruct, and to inspire independent thought and action.

A dystopia is an imagined society characterized by poverty, squalor, oppression and often a nightmare quality. It’s the opposite of a utopia, a perfect or ideal society. Dystopian literature ...

Artist David Shrigley with copies of his limited-edition run of George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four," constructed entirely from pulped, second-hand copies of bestseller "The Da Vinci Code." ...

A dystopia is an imagined society characterized by poverty, squalor, oppression and often a nightmare quality. It’s the opposite of a utopia, a perfect or ideal society. Dystopian literature ...

A 100-year-old 'masterpiece' has been called the greatest classic novel of all time, beating out the likes of Jane Austen and ...

The artist first read Nineteen Eighty-Four when he was an art student in the 1980s. On reading it again, he says he realised “that it was still a really resonant book, that it seemed even more ...

Martin Freeman kicks of a day of readings from Nineteen Eighty-Four, celebrating the 75th anniversary of Orwell's great dystopian novel, as part of Radio 4's 'Orwell vs Kafka' season. Other ...

Americans still read George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” 75 years after it was first published on June 8, 1949.