Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future.
While 1984 has come and gone, Orwell's narrative is more, timely than ever. 1984 presents a "negative utopia", that is at once a startling and haunting vision of the world, so powerful that it's completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the power of this novel, its hold on the imaginations of entire generations of readers, or the resiliency of its admonitions, a legacy that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.
"A profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book…Orwell's theory of power is developed brilliantly."
The New Yorker
"Orwell's novel escorts us so quietly, so directly, and so dramatically from our own day to the fate which may be ours in the future, that the experience is a blood-chilling one."
Saturday Review
"Nineteen Eighty-Four is a remarkable book; as a virtuoso literary performance it has a sustained brilliance that has rarely been matched in other works of its genre…It is as timely as the label on a poison bottle."
