Amazon has decided to offer free books or $30 to Kindle customers that had copies of George Orwell's "1984" and "Animal Farm" novels, which were deleted from their electronic reading devices back in July.

By Christopher Blank It was Theatre Memphis' winning night at the 25th annual Ostrander Awards on Sunday. The community theater racked up 14 of the 24 Ossies given for excellence in local theater at the ceremony held at the Memphis Botanic Garden.

By ANGHARAD MARMENT Theatre ANIMAL FARM Oxford Castle OXFORD George Orwell's political satire Animal Farm was adapted as a theatre piece by the British theatre director and playwright Ian Wooldridge.

By Steve Pratt ANY play that ends with George Orwell, author of 1984 and Animal Farm, dancing with a very large rat around the living room of a cottage on a remote Scottish island defies being categorised.After the success of his play about the Goons, Ying Tong, Roy Smiles returns to Yorkshire with another biographical tale which emerges as a cunning blend of the amusing, the amazing and the deadly serious.This time George Orwell is centrestage.

By Arin Gencer, The Baltimore Sun Oct. 13--Seventeen free-ranging pigs, including a 500-pound boar, were discovered and shot on properties next to a Carroll County farm that has been under state quarantine for about six months, according to county animal control officers.