1984
First published 1949
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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.
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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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Book information
- Author
- George Orwell
- First published
- 1949
- Publisher
- Pegasus Books
- ISBN-13
- 9781643136981