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Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell's classic dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, was first published in 1949. In January 2017, the 68-year-old book rose to the top of Amazon's bestseller list. Want to know what all the buzz is about?

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George Orwell's 1984 Has a Sales Surge
New York Times, 26 Jan. 2017
Overview of the novel
From Literature and Its Times (Gale, 1997)
Biography of Orwell
From Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, 1995
1984, 60 Years Later
Audio file and transcript. Talk of the Nation, NPR, 8 June 2009
The Message for Today in Orwell's 1984
New York Times, 1 Jan. 1984

Cover of the 2009 Penguin Books edition

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