About the Book: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Published in the summer of 1949, George Orwells 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, Orwells 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