Pradeep reviewed 1984 by George Orwell
Very good dystopian fiction
5 stars
Captures how much tyranny, abuse and manipulation can break people till they are no longer themselves.
Paperback, 328 pages
English language
Published Aug. 31, 1963 by Signet Classics.
The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of "negative utopia"—a startlingly original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing, from the first sentence to the last four words. No one can deny the novel's hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.
Captures how much tyranny, abuse and manipulation can break people till they are no longer themselves.