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Jun 12, 2019 · Seventy years ago, Eric Blair, writing under a pseudonym George Orwell, published “1984,” now generally considered a classic of dystopian fiction. The novel tells the story of Winston Smith, a ...
- Stephen Groening
Jan 21, 2022 · Andrew Petiprin. This piece first appeared in the Winter 2021 “Freedom” issue of Evangelization & Culture, the quarterly journal of the Word on Fire Institute. Today, on this 72nd anniversary of George Orwell’s death, we examine the Catholic sensibility of his masterwork, 1984. You can learn more and become an Institute member today to ...
Jun 10, 2024 · 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.
Jun 8, 2019 · The postwar Sovietization of Eastern Europe produced societies right out of Orwell’s pages, but American readers responded to “1984” as a book about loyalty oaths and McCarthyism. In the ...
- Louis Menand
Jun 8, 2019 · No novel of the past century has had more influence than George Orwell’s 1984. The title, the adjectival form of the author’s last name, the vocabulary of the all-powerful Party that rules the ...
George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four has been challenged on such grounds as profanity, immorality, and obscenity. It has been charged with being Communistic, containing sex references, and being ...
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George Orwell, born and educated into the Anglican faith, grew up to become an agnostic. In an essay written several years before the. composition of 1984, he noted that "few thinking people now. believe in life after death .... The real problem is how to restore. the religious attitude while accepting death as final.
