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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.

Cover of 1984.

1984

by George Orwell · published 1949 · read 2010-02-01

★★★★☆

Story time: My mother read 1984 as a teenager, in the German Democratic Republic. It was, of course, forbidden there, so it was passed around illegally, in hand-typed copies. You usually only had one chapter at a time, and not necessarily i