Archive for August 27th, 2007

Definitive 20th Century Literature is Depressing

1984 ‘is definitive book of the 20th century’
Sarah Crown
Saturday June 2, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

Paranoia, propaganda and a state of perpetual war are the defining characteristics of the last century, according to the results of a national survey announced at the Hay festival today.Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell’s dystopic vision of a totalitarian future in which the population [...]

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