Nineteen Eighty-Four (first published in 1949) by George Orwell is a dystopian novel about Oceania, a society ruled by the oligarchical dictatorship of the Party. Life in the Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war, pervasive government surveillance, and incessant public mind control, accomplished with a political system euphemistically named English Socialism (Ingsoc), which is administrated by a privileged Inner Party elit...
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- 1949
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- Utopian and dystopian fiction ,
- Science Fiction ,
- Fiction ,
- Speculative fiction ,
- Social science fiction
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- 1984,
- Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four
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