George Orwell’s 1984 is a dystopian classic that captures the terror of a society under totalitarian control. Through ...

Mr. English is the author of, among other books, “The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature.” I traced a copy of George Orwell’s “1984” to the library of the ...

Remember high school English class reading assignments? Sometimes those dense classics were even enough to make the booklovers in the classroom groan. But every now and then, an assigned reading would ...

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