Nineteen Eighty-Four (also 1984), by George Orwell, published in 1949, is a dystopian novel about the totalitarian régime of the Party, an oligarchical collectivist society where life in the Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war, pervasive government surveillance, public mind control, and the voiding of citizens' rights. In the Ministry of Truth (Minitrue), protagonist Winston Smith is a civil servant responsible for perpe...
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Date of first publication:
- 1949
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- Utopian and dystopian fiction ,
- Science fiction ,
- Fiction ,
- Speculative fiction ,
- Social science fiction
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Also known as:
- 1984,
- Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four
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