Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by
English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth
and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences
of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within
society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authori ...