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Nineteen Eighty-Four (Novel)

Written by George Orwell and published in 1949, this dystopian novel explores what a theoretical nation state would look like controlled by an all powerful and knowing central government where the upper class live in luxury and the rest of the citizens lead monotonous existences with government controlled jobs and near constant surveillance. Now regarded by many as a classic, the book has been questioned, challenged, and banned before. Soviet Leader Josef Stalin famously banned the book and burned all available copies in the USSR for it's unfavorable depiction of a bloated communist country. The book also created the adjective 'Orwellian' to describe this surreal dystopian nature that is the theme of the novel.

Critical Reception

Many parallels were drawn to the novel Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley seventeen yeas prior. These two novels both tackle the issues of what true sinister central government and what it's corruption at all levels would look like when applied to an abstracted society.

Bans and Challenges

Nineteen Eighty-Four is estimated to be the fifth most banned or challenged book in the current published archive. In 1981 in Jackson County, FL the book was challenged for Orwell's "pro-communist and contained explicit sexual matter," the latter being true, however the former has been documented as the antithesis of Orwell's intention.

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