I just came across an article about George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, one of the books on our list of 10 Books to Read Before You Die. It seems that at the same time that Orwell was trying to finish writing this novel he was mourning the death of his wife and fighting severe illness.
Check out this an interesting piece about what the author Robert McCrum calls "probably the definitive novel of the 20th century."
Well, that sheds some light on the tone of the book, doesn't it?
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