Written 70 years ago, 1984 was once George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And at the same time as 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a central authority so that you can do anything to keep watch over the narrative is timelier than ever…
• Nominated as one of The us’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read •
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was once their final, most essential command.”
Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With every lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the truth that Big Brother is all the time watching…
A startling and haunting vision of the world, 1984 is so powerful that it is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the influence of this novel, its hold on the imaginations of a couple of generations of readers, or the resiliency of its admonitions—a legacy that seems only to grow with the passage of time.
