George Orwell’s 1984 Becomes a Literary Sensation
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🗓️ 8 June 2026
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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. This episode originally aired in 2023.
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