Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair). It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated.
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Nineteen eighty-four

George Orwell

Lightyear Press

United States, United States of America

Cutchgue, NY, 1984, ©1949

Cutchogue, N.Y, ©1949

Cutchogue, N.Y, 1982

June 1982

<p>orwell's Final Novel, 1984, Is The Story Of One Man's Struggle Against The Ubiquitous, Menacing State Power ( Big Brother ) That Tries To Dictate Nearly Every Aspect Of Human Life. The Novel Is A Classic In Anti-utopian Fiction, And A Trenchant Political Satire That Remains As Relevant Today As When It Was First Published.</p><h3>books Of The Century; New York Times Review, June 1949 - Mark Schorer</h3><p>it Is Probable That No Other Work Of This Generation Has Made Us Desire Freedom More Earnestly Or Loathe Tyranny With Such Fullness. <i>1984</i>, The Most Contemporary Novel Of The Year And Who Knows Of Now Many Past And To Come, Is A Great Examination Into And Dramatization Of Lord Acton's Famous Apothegm, &quot; Power Tends To Corrupt And Absolute Power Corrups Absolutely. &quot;</p>

1984 depicts a gray world dominated by Big Brother and its vast network of agents, quashing freedom in a totalitarian world, where news is manufactured according to the authorities' will and people live by rote. Dissidents are disciplined into being willing tools of their masters. Winston Smith lives in this social system where surveillance, brainwashing, and execution are the state's tools for erasing personal will. His foray into passion ends with his arrest by the Thought Police and challenges him to be a hero

This is a novel which depicts man's plight under totalitarianism. It has been described as one of the most powerful commentaries on what life is like without freedom

IT was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

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