<P> Nineteen Eighty - Four , often published as 1984 , is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell . The novel is set in Airstrip One , formerly Great Britain , a province of the superstate Oceania . Oceania is a world of perpetual war , omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation . Oceania 's residents are dictated by a political regime euphemistically named English Socialism ( shortened to `` Ingsoc '' in Newspeak , the government 's invented language ) . The superstate is under the control of the privileged , elite Inner Party . The Inner Party persecutes individualism and independent thinking known as `` thoughtcrimes '' and is enforced by the `` Thought Police '' . </P>
<P> Nineteen Eighty - Four , often published as 1984 , is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell . The novel is set in Airstrip One , formerly Great Britain , a province of the superstate Oceania . Oceania is a world of perpetual war , omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation . Oceania 's residents are dictated by a political regime euphemistically named English Socialism ( shortened to `` Ingsoc '' in Newspeak , the government 's invented language ) . The superstate is under the control of the privileged , elite Inner Party . The Inner Party persecutes individualism and independent thinking known as `` thoughtcrimes '' and is enforced by the `` Thought Police '' . </P>
who is the author of the book nineteen eighty four
who is the author of the book nineteen eighty four
George Orwell
George Orwell