Step 1 : Introduction to the question "Which novel begins with the line, “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”?"
...On this day in 1949, George Orwell's novel 1984, was published. The classic dystopian novel opens with the following statement that should seem out of the ordinary: “It was a bright day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” With this opening line, Orwell subtly alerts the reader that statements of truth in this fictional society should be called into question. The novel is set in an imagined future, the year 1984, when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and propaganda.