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This website looks like possibly the worst way to read George Orwell (or anyone else). Links to individual chapters, text in a narrow (and non-adjustable) column, a search function that doesn't work...

Just buy the book, or borrow it from a library.

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We had functional search on web sites in 2003 (arguably even better than today), so someone must have broken it after it had been implemented.

solr* of that era was a pain to keep running. I'd guess that's what they used?

* https://solr.apache.org/

No idea, but it looks like a routing issue, it doesn't even hit the search engine. They've probably disabled all dynamic (PHP) code.

Fortunately Google search still works well:

https://www.google.com/search?q=napoleon+site%3Ageorge-orwel...

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