“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were
striking thirteen . . .”
The first, dislocating words of George Orwell’s 1984 were meant to stir readers from postwar complacency. Begun in 1947, during the opening skirmishes of the cold war, the novel illustrated the results of allowing an all-powerful state to rule without regard to the rights of its citizens.
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