Nineteen eighty-four (Annotated)

George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is a bleak and exacting dystopian novel that imagines a totalitarian superstate in which language, memory, desire, and even private thought are subject to political control. Through the story of Winston Smith, a minor functionary at the Ministry of Truth, Orwell fuses political satire, psychological realism, and speculative fiction. Its spare, lucid prose and c...