Did George Orwell secretly rewrite the end of Nineteen Eighty-Four as he lay dying?
![Changes to the ending of George Orwell's 1984 may cause you to see the dystopian masterpiece in a new light.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170719093758im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/x/0/0/v/o/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwqbom.png/1499026969472.jpg)
In 2012, I had one of those experiences about which every book collector dreams. I'd spent a beautiful late summer's day in Oxfordshire researching George Orwell's childhood and had arranged to meet a friend in my favourite English pub, The Three Tuns.