Published in 1948, Orwell's 1984 is a dystopian tale of a lone protagonist struggling under the rule of a repressive totalitarian government set in a future version of England, called Airstrip One. Famous for an imagined language that conjures a cruelly cynical authoritarian regime, 1984 is one of the most popular novels in the English Language. Part political thriller and science fiction, the book established the word Orwellian to describe official deception, unwarranted surveillance and revisionist history by the state.
"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."
