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'Nineteen Eighty-Four' was published #onthisday in 1949. In 2017 @TheOrwellPrize read the novel live, dramatised by @HannahPrice, with 50 guest readers including @DavidOlusoga, @ETemelkuran, @simon_schama, @Bonn1eGreer and many more. It took 11 hours: bit.ly/37bOPwh
Full cast, readers and credits: orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-fou…

#1984 #georgeorwell #OnThisDay
The entire reading is on YouTube and our website, for anyone that wants to dip in:

Elsewhere, the 'Orwell's Fiction' in our online #orwellibrary has plenty of links to pieces reflecting on the novel and its history. The library is a Living Thing: get in touch with recommendations for articles/podcasts/videos we should be linking to...

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Among those links is one of the first published reviews (10 June 1949) from an anonymous @GuardianBooks reviewer. "It is an instructive book; there is a good deal of What Every Young Person Ought to Know - not in 1984, but 1949."

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The British writer George Orwell died 70 years ago #onthisday, aged 46. As well as believing in the moral power of language, Orwell understood the dangers of its corruption. Seventy years after his death, Orwell has never been more relevant to the world we inhabit. #orwellday
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