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Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel by English author George Orwell published in 1949.Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition (1996). HarperCollins:New York. p. 734.The novel is set in Airstrip One (formerly Read More..

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Description	Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel by English author George Orwell published in 1949.Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition (1996). HarperCollins:New York. p. 734.The novel is set in Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain), a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation, dictated by a political system euphemistically named English Socialism (or Ingsoc in the government's invented language, Newspeak) under the control of a privileged elite of the Inner Party, that persecutes individualism and independent thinking as "thoughtcrime."The Columbia Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition, Columbia University Press: 1993, p. 2030.The tyranny is epitomised by Big Brother, the Party leader who enjoys an intense cult of personality but who may not even exist. The Party "seeks power entirely for its own sake. It is not interested in the good of others; it is interested solely in power.""Nineteen Eighty-Four," pg 272. The protagonist of the novel, Winston Smith, is a member of the Outer Party, who works for the Ministry of Truth (or Minitrue in Newspeak), which is responsible for propaganda and historical revisionism. His job is to rewrite past newspaper articles, so that the historical record always supports the party line.The Oxford Companion to English Literature, Sixth Edition. University of Oxford Press: 2000. p. 726. The instructions that the workers receive specify the corrections as fixing misquotations and never as what they really are: forgeries and falsifications. A large part of the ministry also actively destroys all documents that have been edited and do not contain the revisions; in this way, no proof exists that the government is lying. Smith is a diligent and skillful worker but secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion against Big Brother. Orwell based the character of the heroine of the novel, Julia, on his second wife, Sonia Orwell.As literary political fiction and dystopian science-fiction, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic novel in content, plot and style. Many of its terms and concepts, such as Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, Newspeak, Room 101, telescreen, 2 + 2 = 5, and memory hole, have entered into common use since its publication in 1949. Nineteen Eighty-Four popularised the adjective Orwellian, which describes official deception, secret surveillance and manipulation of recorded history by a totalitarian or authoritarian state. In 2005, the novel was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.Grossman, Lev; Lacayo, Richard (6 October 2005). "ALL-TIME 100 Novels. 1984 (1949), by George Orwell". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 19 October 2012 It was awarded a place on both lists of Modern Library 100 Best Novels, reaching number 13 on the editor's list, and 6 on the readers' list. "100 Best Novels". Modern Library. Retrieved 19 October 2012 In 2003, the novel was listed at number 8 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. "BBC – The Big Read". BBC. April 2003, Retrieved 19 October 2012
Description	Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel by English author George Orwell published in 1949.Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition (1996). HarperCollins:New York. p. 734.The novel is set in Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain), a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation, dictated by a political system euphemistically named English Socialism (or Ingsoc in the government's invented language, Newspeak) under the control of a privileged elite of the Inner Party, that persecutes individualism and independent thinking as "thoughtcrime."The Columbia Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition, Columbia University Press: 1993, p. 2030.The tyranny is epitomised by Big Brother, the Party leader who enjoys an intense cult of personality but who may not even exist. The Party "seeks power entirely for its own sake. It is not interested in the good of others; it is interested solely in power.""Nineteen Eighty-Four," pg 272. The protagonist of the novel, Winston Smith, is a member of the Outer Party, who works for the Ministry of Truth (or Minitrue in Newspeak), which is responsible for propaganda and historical revisionism. His job is to rewrite past newspaper articles, so that the historical record always supports the party line.The Oxford Companion to English Literature, Sixth Edition. University of Oxford Press: 2000. p. 726. The instructions that the workers receive specify the corrections as fixing misquotations and never as what they really are: forgeries and falsifications. A large part of the ministry also actively destroys all documents that have been edited and do not contain the revisions; in this way, no proof exists that the government is lying. Smith is a diligent and skillful worker but secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion against Big Brother. Orwell based the character of the heroine of the novel, Julia, on his second wife, Sonia Orwell.As literary political fiction and dystopian science-fiction, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic novel in content, plot and style. Many of its terms and concepts, such as Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, Newspeak, Room 101, telescreen, 2 + 2 = 5, and memory hole, have entered into common use since its publication in 1949. Nineteen Eighty-Four popularised the adjective Orwellian, which describes official deception, secret surveillance and manipulation of recorded history by a totalitarian or authoritarian state. In 2005, the novel was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.Grossman, Lev; Lacayo, Richard (6 October 2005). "ALL-TIME 100 Novels. 1984 (1949), by George Orwell". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 19 October 2012 It was awarded a place on both lists of Modern Library 100 Best Novels, reaching number 13 on the editor's list, and 6 on the readers' list. "100 Best Novels". Modern Library. Retrieved 19 October 2012 In 2003, the novel was listed at number 8 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. "BBC – The Big Read". BBC. April 2003, Retrieved 19 October 2012

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Name	Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Authors	George Orwell
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Genre	Dystopian , political fiction , social science fiction
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Language	English
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Country	United Kingdom
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Pages	267 (1949 US edition)
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Media_type	Print (hardback and paperback)
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Isbn	0-547-24964-0
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Oclc	52187275
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Publisher	Secker & Warburg
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