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Content: A Novel 
First edition cover
Author
George Orwell
Cover artist
Michael Kennar
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Genre
Dystopian, political fiction, social science fiction
Set in
London, Airstrip One, Oceania
Publisher
Secker & Warburg
Publication date
8 June 1949 (1949-06-08)
Media type
Print (hardback and paperback)
Pages
328
Awards
NPR Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books
OCLC
470015866
Dewey Decimal
823.912[1]
Preceded by
Animal Farm 
Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopiansocial science fictionnovel by the English novelist George Orwell(the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair). It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburgas Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Fourcentres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. [ 2][3]Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. [ 2][3][4]More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated. The story takes place in an imagined future, the year 1984, when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and propaganda. Great Britain, known as Airstrip One, has become a province of a totalitarian superstatenamed Oceaniathat is ruled by the Party who employ the Thought Policeto persecute individuality and independent thinking.[5] Big Brother, the leader of the Party, enjoys an intense cult of personalitydespite the fact that he may not even exist. The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a diligent and skillful rank-and-file worker and Outer Party member who secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion. He enters into a forbidden relationship with a colleague, Julia, and starts to remember what life was like before the Party came to power.