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Title Nineteen Eighty-Four

British first edition cover
AuthorGeorge Orwell
CountryEngland
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Dystopian, Political Novel
PublisherSecker and Warburg (London)
Released8 June, 1949
Media typePrint (Hardcover & Paperback) & e-book, audio-CD
Pages326 pp (Paperback edition)
ISBNISBN 0-452-28423-6 (Paperback edition)

Nineteen Eighty-Four (commonly written as 1984) is a dystopian novel by the English writer George Orwell, published in 1949. The book tells the story of Winston Smith and his degradation by the totalitarian state in which he lives.

Along with Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, it is among the most famous and cited dystopias in literature.

It has been translated into 62 languages and has left a profound impression upon the English language itself. Nineteen Eighty-Four, its terminology and its author have become bywords when discussing privacy and state-security issues. The term "Orwellian" has come to describe actions or organizations reminiscent of the totalitarian society depicted in the novel, and the phrase "Big Brother is watching" has come to mean any act of surveillance that is perceived as invasive.

Nineteen Eighty-Four has, at times, been seen as revolutionary and politically dangerous and therefore was banned by many libraries in various countries, not mentioning totalitarian regimes.

The novel was chosen by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.