Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four can be clasified as a dystopian novel. It was the last novel written by Orwell. It is set nearly 40 years after the end of World War 2, and a few years after the so-called Atomic Wars, Winston Smith  is a middle-aged man who endures a grimy existence in the totalitarian state of Oceania under the constant surveillance of the Thought Police.