Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell

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George Orwell's dystopian classic follows Winston Smith, a low-ranking Party worker in a totalitarian superstate, as he secretly rebels against a regime that controls truth itself — and shows what happens when that rebellion is crushed.

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