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Extract from Nineteen Eighty-Four

Extract from Nineteen Eighty-Four
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This extract from Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, read by an actor, is a chilling description of a totalitarian society. Orwell’s novel was written in response to the oppression of the Stalinist Soviet Union but its analysis of such societies has wider and abiding relevance.
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