TY - BOOK AU - Orwell, George TI - 1984 SN - 9789389053739 U1 - 823.912 PY - 2019/// CY - New Delhi PB - Fingerprint Classics KW - Totalitarianism KW - England--London KW - Science fiction N2 - Published in the summer of 1949, George Orwell s Nineteen Eighty-Four is one of the most definitive texts of modern literature. Set in Oceania, one of the three inter-continental superstates that divided the world among themselves after a global war, Orwell s masterful critique of the political structures of the time, works itself out through the story of Winston Smith, a man caught in the webs of a dystopian future, and his clandestine love affair with Julia, a young woman he meets during the course of his work for the government. As much as it is an entertaining read, Nineteen Eighty-Four is also a brilliant, and more importantly, a timeless satirical attack on the social and political structures of the world ER -