Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
The year is 1984. The world is in a state of endless war and Big Brother sees and controls everyone. Winston Smith, a member of the Foreign Party and a propagandist writer in the Ministry of Truth, keeps a diary he shouldn't keep and falls in love with Julia, a woman he shouldn't see. Outwardly docile, Winston dreams of rebelling against an oppressive Big Brother, risking everything to regain his lost sense of individuality and control over his own future. Among the bestsellers of the twentieth century of 1984 is the dystopian classic that brought Orwellian terms such as "Big Brother", "double thinking", "Newspake" and "thinking crime" into the collective consciousness, giving official terminology to state-sanctioned deception, surveillance and historical revisionism.
