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Get to know the iconic novels, from ‘1984’ to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale.’
Since Donald Trump’s election, classic dystopian novels have seen a major surge in popularity.
Credit: Harper Perennia, Signet Classics
Signet has ordered a 75,000-copy reprint and the publisher “anticipates putting through additional reprints quickly.”
Below, EW breaks down the classic dystopian novels that have experienced newfound popularity in Trump’s America.
The political regime is English Socialism (Ingsoc) and the Party leader is Big Brother.
Smith shakes things up when he dares to think for himself.
“Big Brother is Watching You.”
“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake.
Windrip defeats FDR and wins the highest office in the country.
During his presidency, he rules as a totalitarian dictator.
Certainly there was nothing exhilarating in the actual words of his speeches, nor anything convincing in his philosophy.
His political platforms were only wings of a windmill.”
“Why are you so afraid of the word ‘Fascism,’ Doremus?
Just a wordjust a word!
Relevant Quotes:“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
Relevant Quotes:“Better never means better for everyone…
It always means worse, for some.”
“When we think of the past it’s the beautiful things we pick out.
We want to believe it was all like that.”
