George Orwell

1984

Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel by English writer George Orwell. The novel is set in the year 1984 when most of the world population have become victims of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and propaganda.

In the novel, Great Britain («Airstrip One») has become a province of a superstate named Oceania. Oceania is ruled by the “Party”, who employ the “Thought Police” to persecute individualism and independent thinking. The Party's leader is Big Brother, who enjoys an intense cult of personality but may not even exist. The protagonist of the novel, Winston Smith, is a rank-and-file Party member. Smith is an outwardly diligent and skillful worker, but he secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion against Big Brother. Smith rebels by entering a forbidden relationship with fellow employee Julia.

As literary political fiction and dystopian science-fiction, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic novel in content, plot, and style. Many of its terms and concepts, such as Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, Newspeak, Room 101, telescreen, 2 + 2 = 5, and memory hole, have entered into common usage since its publication in 1949. Nineteen Eighty-Four popularised the adjective Orwellian, which connotes official deception, secret surveillance, brazenly misleading terminology and manipulation of recorded history by a totalitarian or authoritarian state. In 2005, the novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. It was awarded a place on both lists of Modern Library 100 Best Novels, reaching number 13 on the editor's list, and 6 on the readers' list. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 8 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.
352 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2018
Publication year
2018
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  • Анна Лаптинскаяshared an impression5 years ago
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    Книга из ряда фантастики, но многое соответствует действительности...

  • Daniela Ospinashared an impression7 years ago
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    Un mundo distópico aterrador donde se elimina por completo el individualismo y cada rasgo de humanidad, nuestro protagonista logra mantenerse despierto y consciente y nos relata cómo es vivir así.

  • Стас Димитренкоshared an impression7 years ago

    It,s book very great. I read in russian language before and now wanted to read in English.
    It was good experience for me.

Quotes

  • Courtney Cantrellhas quoted7 years ago
    Nothing exists except through human consciousness.”
  • Ksyusha Pavlovahas quoted9 years ago
    That the choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness, and that, for the great bulk of mankind, happiness was better.
  • Andreea Elenahas quoted2 years ago
    WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

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