~ Trade Paperback
~ Prometheus Hall of Fame Award - 1984
1984 is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmarish vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality.
The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life, the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language, and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell.
Arguably the 20th-century's most famous novel, 1984 is a dystopian study of political tyranny, mind control, paranoia, and secret mass surveillance.