Nineteen Eighty-fourNineteen Eighty-four

A novel attacking totalitarianism. It is a vision of a world worse than Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia, and a world that was perhaps not so incredible to readers in 1949 at the onset of the Cold War. It is a drama depicting the grim existence of people living in the capital of the English-speaking totalitarian state in the year 1984. Having committed the crime of defying the system and falling in love, a young man and woman are arrested and subjected to mental and physical tortures by ruthless party leaders.