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This isn't a website, but check out this awesome widget with links to articles on human rights: media type="custom" key="7664569" Interesting Orwell websites

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The site contains all of Orwell’s published works. A great place to read anything and everything.

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A website that examines Orwell’s political essays, newspaper columns, essays, etc. The page does not look at Orwell’s fictional work.

 []  Students for an Orwellian Society. This is a fascinating website, and shows that many have clearly missed the point of Orwell’s warning of the creation of a police state. It shows the power that literature can have when not understood. Or is the site sarcastic and meant to serve only as a joke? What do you think?  

[]  An Indian podcast on how curator and art critic Gitanjali Dang is inspired by George Orwell in her art show, ‘By George’, that showcases eight artists and runs at the Alliance Française de Delhi. There are three separate podcasts, if you are only interested in the Orwell interview, allow the entire podcast to load, and skip to 05:53.  

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A really cool video put together by a high school student about 1984. The video serves as a “movie trailer” for the novel. Hope you like it!

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A “found poem” based on Orwell’s 1984. A found poem takes text from the novel and uses it to create an original poetic idea.

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Part one and two of A Talk of the Nation program on NPR on the 40th anniversary of the original publication of 1984. Host Neil Conen interviews writer Christopher Hitchens, author of the book, Why Orwell Matters, and takes phone calls from listens on what they learned from 1984 and why it still matters to them today. The radio program was originally broadcast June 8, 2009.

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A really interested and ironic article about Amazon.com being sued for accessing customers Kindle e-readers and removing Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm without their consent or knowledge due to the versions being unauthorized.

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The Orwell Prize is publishing the diaries of George Orwell in the form of a WordPress blog, with the entries entered exactly as he wrote them 70 years later on the same date, starting on August 9, 2008 with his August 9th, 1938 entry and continuing on through October 1942.

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Davis, California Wiki page with more information on Students for an Orwellian Society. An interesting Wiki with lots of external links to check out.

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