Rank 25 of 100
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Also known as 1984
Synopsis
Winston Smith works at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting old newspapers so the present is never contradicted. Orwell’s London of telescreens and invented vocabulary is a manual for how a state keeps power: not only by watching people, but by taking away the words they would need to disagree.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 1949
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Form
- Novel
- Genre
- Dystopian, Political
- Audience
- Adult
- Era
- 1946–1999
- Movement
- Postwar
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 328 pages
- Reported copies
- Tens of millions of copies
- Kind
- Fiction