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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four:
A Novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist
George Orwell. 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.