‘1984’ tops Amazon’s best-seller list
January 26, 2017
Penguin USA, the publisher of the novel “1984” written by George Orwell, said it saw a big jump in sales of the novel about a dystopian future last weekend. The increase became evident to the publisher after Kellyanne Conway, an adviser to Donald Trump, cited the administration’s use of “alternate facts” in a televised interview to support the President’s false claim that his inauguration attracted the “largest audience ever.”
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