1984

Orwell told the truth. Christopher Hitchens. The dystopian classic of world literature in a new translation. Winston Smith works at the Ministry of Truth and makes two crucial mistakes: he falls in love with his colleague Julia and questions the totalitarian world in which they are constantly monitored by the so-called "Big Brother." This is a mortal sin in the superstate of Oceania. Orwell, hailed by the Observer as the greatest writer of the 20th century, achieved a major classic of modernity with his suffocating vision of a state dictatorship that tolerates no private life but dictates the thoughts and feelings of its citizens down to the last detail. Totalitarian surveillance state, disenfranchisement of the individual, seamless observation and manipulation, brainwashing, and historical revisionism – rarely has a dystopia that seemed completely absurd at the time of its publication predicted the future of humanity so accurately and visionary as this bestseller from 1948. Penguin Edition. Timeless, cult, colorful.