Sales of George Orwell’s 1984 soar after Donald Trump adviser puts forward ‘alternative facts’

Sales of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 have soared since Donald Trump’s adviser coined the phrase “alternative facts”.

Orwell’s classic novel is a tale of a society where facts are distorted using a fictional language called “newspeak”.

Personal thought is suppressed using the term “doublethink”, which Orwell wrote “means the power of holding contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them”.

The book, first published in 1949, topped Amazon’s bestseller list on Wednesday after Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway put forward what she called “alternative facts” in a TV interview.

 

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