1984 is such a great book, have you read it?
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
present to delve into island secrets and sagas. Great stuff." "Seattle Times"
- "G.B. Edwards's miraculous novel...There is a rare wholeness about "The Book of Ebenezer Le Page". You get the entire man, in a way that isn't usually within the gift of literature to procure... I have read few books of such wide and delightful appeal... [it] is vast fun and vast life, a Kulturgeschichte... It is ‘the book of’ in the prosaic sense that Edwards