Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's profound dystopian novel about a surveillance state far ahead of its time, featuring an introduction by writer and journalist Dorian Lynskey.

One of Britain’s most popular novels, George Orwell’s dystopian tale 1984 is set in a society terrorised by a totalitarian ideology propagated by the Party.

Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell’s terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime.

The novel also coined many new words and phrases which regularly appear in popular culture, such as 'Big Brother', 'thoughtcrime', 'doublethink' and 'Newspeak'.

George Orwell, also kno...