Nineteen Forty-eight is a comic verse-novel, audaciously re-writing George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four in Pushkin sonnets. Set during the 1948 London Olympics, it offers a radically alternative history of the Cold War, in which Britain has a Labour-Communist coalition government, the Royal Family have fled to Rhodesia and the U.S. threatens to impose an economic blockade on Britain.
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