I think 1984 is a great novel by the great George Orwell.
Who is George Orwell?
He was a famous English novelist born in 1903.  He was also specialized in essays and was a well known critic.
Awesome, how many copies of the book were sold?
As of today around 30 million copies have been sold, i believe.  Quite impressive.
does 1984  reflect the year 1984 ?
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel by English writer George Orwell published in June 1949, whose themes centre on the risks of government overreach, totalitarianism and repressive regimentation of all persons and behaviours within society. The novel is set in an imagined future, the year 1984, when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism and propaganda.
In the novel, Great Britain ("Airstrip One") has become
1955 by Lawrence and Wishart.
An explicitly political work, the novel is widely regarded as a classic of working-class literature. As of 2003, it had sold over one million copies. George Orwell described it as "a book that everyone should read".
Background.
Robert Tressell was the nom-de-plume of Robert Noonan, a house painter. The illegitimate son of Mary Ann Noonan and Samuel Croker (a retired magistrate), he was born in Dublin in 1870 and settled in England