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Artist collecting 1,984 copies of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four for display

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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