In a bleak totalitarian future, Winston Smith struggles to preserve truth and individuality under the constant surveillance of Big Brother. As he secretly rebels against the Party, Winston discovers how power and fear can reshape reality itself. George Orwell’s 1984 is a haunting and prophetic novel that explores censorship, conformity, and the loss of freedom in a world ruled by control and manipulation.
Date: 1949 (United States)
Length: ~328 pages (varies by edition)
Cultural impact: ~30.000.000 copies (estimates)
Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller
"A tool for mental resistance (...). The filthy secret at the heart of power isn't the will of power, but the will to obey" — Christopher Hitchens, author and journalist
"Private feud with stalinism" — Isaac Asimov, science fiction master and author of the Foundation series
"Orwell became a direct model for me much later in my life –in the real 1984, the year in which I began writing a somewhat different dystopia, The Handmaid’s Tale" — Margaret Atwood, acclaimed Canadian author of The Handmaid’s Tale
"A major work" — Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister and Nobel Prize-winning writer
"A masterpiece" — The Guardian
"The most nightmarish of all the fictional prophecies ever written" — Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange
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