1984

Orwell's brilliant masterpiece and political legacy in a contemporary translation. George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 - the grim scenario of a totalitarian surveillance state that destroys all individuality - has long become a classic. Unflinchingly, Orwell depicts in his 1948 novel the machinations of a dictatorial regime and the terrifying image of a society where everything and everyone is monitored around the clock, history is distorted, and adjusted to current political circumstances. Today, nearly four decades later, 1984 is alarmingly relevant again, and we find it hard to escape its oppressive connection to reality.