Nineteen Eighty-Four, also published as 1984, is a dystopian and speculative fiction novel by the English writer George Orwell, published on 8 June 1949 by Secker and Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final completed book. Thematically it centers on totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and behavior, set in a fictional future in which Great Britain, renamed Airstrip One, has become a province of the totalitarian superstate Oceania under the dictatorial leader Big Brother. Orwell described the book as a satire and a display of the perversions to which a centralized economy is liable, while also stating he believed something resembling it could arrive; it has since been acknowledged for its impact on twentieth-century literature and examines the role of truth and facts within societies and the ways they can be manipulated.
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On the remote Scottish island of Jura.
Orwell drafted and finished the novel on the Scottish island of Jura. He arrived there in May 1946 and stayed at Barnhill, a remote farmhouse on the island that David Astor recommended and whose family owned it, with no electricity or hot water. He had wanted to retreat to a Hebridean island for several years.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian and speculative fiction novel by the English writer George Orwell.
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Time magazine included it on its list of the 100 best English-language novels published from 1923 to 2005, and it was placed on the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels list, reaching number 13 on the editors' list and number 6 on the readers' list.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian and speculative fiction novel by the English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final completed book. Thematically, it centres on totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian and speculative fiction novel by the English writer George Orwell.
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is a dystopian and speculative fiction novel by the English writer George Orwell
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