Nineteen Eighty-Four #533074

Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in 1949. It is a dystopian novel which describes an imagined future, the year 1984. Great Britain has become a province of a totalitarian superstate named Oceania, headed by a mysterious and omnipresent dictator, Big Brother. People live in a repressive society in which every aspect of individual life is controlled by Thought Police.