George Orwell's 1984 - June 8, 1949
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English - June 08, 2021 07:00 - 5 minutes - 6.19 MB - ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsTV & Film Society & Culture literature entertainment film history sciencefiction Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Readers met Winston Smith and the dystopian future where he resides on June 8, 1949 when George Orwell's "1984" was first published. The novel's contents and political commentary have been the subject of study and debate ever since, but what, really, is the story trying to say?
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