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Today, June 25, is George Orwell’s birthday!

 

 

 

To mark the occasion, here are some awesome Ralph Steadman illustrations of Orwell’s anti-totalitarian Continue reading

Orwell in China: Big Brother in every bookshop

Michael Rank

As I was researching Nineteen Eighty-four in Chinese, I wondered whether Orwell ever wrote about China. His interest in India, where he was born in 1903, is well known, and he served in the Burma Continue reading