‘It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.’ That is the arresting opening line of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Published in 1949, it was an immediate success selling 50,000 hardback copies in the UK and an amazing 350,000 in the USA within the first year.
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