1984 by george orwell
In a bleak totalitarian society, a low-level Party worker quietly rebels against an all-seeing regime that monitors citizens, controls information, and enforces orthodoxy through Newspeak, constant surveillance, and the Thought Police. He pursues a furtive relationship and forbidden ideas, only to be betrayed, arrested, and subjected to relentless psychological and physical torture intended to destroy personal loyalties and reshape reality. The story traces the systematic eradication of individual autonomy as the state rewrites history, crushes dissent, and forces ultimate capitulation to its ideology.
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- 1948
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- British
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- Pages
- 298
- Original Language
- English
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- Alternate Titles
- - Nineteen Eighty-Four
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