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June 8, 1949. George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece, 1984, hits bookshelves for the first time, causing an immediate sensation with the novel’s chilling depiction of life under authoritarianism.

Listen to History Daily George Orwell’s 1984 Becomes a Literary Sensation

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