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BANNED! Does a rising trend of book censorship mean we’re destined for Orwell’s Oceania after all?

BANNED! Does a rising trend of book censorship mean we’re destined for Orwell’s Oceania after all?

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Published on January 17, 2025

By Laura McCarthy. It is a well known fact that George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 is the most banned book of all time. The irony of censoring literature which is prophetic of extreme censorship isn’t lost on most of us. You may well have heard of other past bans too, including...

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