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 authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russi ...