<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, or Party, persecutes individualism and independent thinking known as "thoughtcrimes" and is enforced by the "Thought Police". </P> <P> The tyranny is ostensibly overseen by Big Brother, the Party leader who enjoys an intense cult of personality, but who may not even exist . The Party "seeks power entirely for its own sake . It is not interested in the good of others; it is interested solely in power ." The protagonist of the novel, Winston Smith, is a member of the Outer Party, who works for the Ministry of Truth, or Minitrue in Newspeak . The Minitrue is responsible for propaganda and historical revisionism . His job is to rewrite past newspaper articles, so that the historical record always supports the Party line . The workers are told they are correcting misquotations, when in actuality, they are writing false information as truth . The Minitrue also destroys all documents that have not been edited; in this way, there is no proof that the government is lying . Smith is a diligent and skillful worker, but he secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion against Big Brother. Smith's love interest and heroine of the novel, Julia, is based on Orwell's second wife, Sonia Orwell. Smith's attempts at self - education and rebellion are ultimately quashed when he is arrested by O'Brien of the Ministry of Love (or Miniluv), which is tasked with arresting and torturing dissidents and is forced into the horror chamber Room 101 . </P> <P> As literary political fiction and dystopian science - fiction, Nineteen Eighty - Four is a classic novel in content, plot, and style . Many of its terms and concepts, such as Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, Newspeak, Room 101, telescreen, 2 + 2 = 5, and memory hole, have entered into common use since its publication in 1949 . Nineteen Eighty - Four popularised the adjective Orwellian, which describes official deception, secret surveillance, brazenly misleading terminology, and manipulation of recorded history by a totalitarian or authoritarian state . In 2005, the novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English - language novels from 1923 to 2005 . It was awarded a place on both lists of Modern Library 100 Best Novels, reaching number 13 on the editor's list, and 6 on the readers' list . In 2003, the novel was listed at number 8 on the BBC's survey The Big Read . </P> <P> Orwell "encapsulate (d) the thesis at the heart of his unforgiving novel" in 1944, the implications of dividing the world up into zones of influence, which had been conjured by the Tehran Conference . Three years later, he wrote most of it on the Scottish island of Jura from 1947 to 1948 despite being seriously ill with tuberculosis . On 4 December 1948, he sent the final manuscript to the publisher Secker and Warburg, and Nineteen Eighty - Four was published on 8 June 1949 . By 1989, it had been translated into 65 languages, more than any other novel in English until then . The title of the novel, its themes, the Newspeak language and the author's surname are often invoked against control and intrusion by the state, and the adjective Orwellian describes a totalitarian dystopia that is characterised by government control and subjugation of the people . </P>

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