nineteen eighty four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real published in 1949 the book offers political satirist george orwell s nightmarish vision of a totalitarian bureaucratic world and one poor stiff s attempt to find individuality the brilliance of the novel is orwell s prescience of modern life the ubiquity of television the distortion of the language and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell required reading for students since it was published it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written
george orwell
houghton mifflin harcourt
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