Artist collecting 1,984 copies of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four for display
by Sarah Ward
Dec 27, 2023
3 minutes
An artist is collecting 1,984 copies of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four for a display on the island where it was written on its 75th anniversary.
Orwell wrote the dystopian novel on Jura in the Inner Hebrides between 1946 and 1948, while living in a cottage with no heating or hot water.
The writer, known to islanders by his real name Eric Blair, left the island in January 1949 due to
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