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Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia.

TRUTH IS NOT AN OPTION.... Beijing, sometime in the near future: a month has gone missing from official records. No one has any memory of it, and no one can care less. Except for a small circle of friends, who will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of the sinister cheerfulness and amnesia...

Легендарный роман в классическом переводе Виктора Голышева читает Егор Бероев. "Новояз", "мыслепреступление", "Министерство Правды" – сатирик-визионер Джордж Оруэлл так ярко и беспощадно точно изобразил тоталитаризм, что мы до сих пор пользуемся его образами, говоря о современной реальности.