Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pages
250
Language
English
Published
1949

Overview

Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's dystopian novel about surveillance, language, memory, and the crushing power of a state that wants to control reality itself. Winston Smith lives under the gaze of Big Brother, working inside a system that rewrites the past while demanding absolute loyalty in the present. His private doubts and forbidden attachments become acts of resistance in a world built to erase them.

Orwell gives political terror a human center: fear, fatigue, desire, and the need to say that truth still exists. Nineteen Eighty-Four remains essential for readers interested in totalitarianism, propaganda, censorship, and the fragile inner life that survives under pressure. Its bleakness works because Winston's need for honesty remains painfully recognizable and urgent.

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