In a grim future where the world is divided into perpetual war and total surveillance, Winston Smith dares to question the absolute power of the Party. In Oceania, even thoughts are monitored, history is rewritten, and truth is whatever Big Brother says it is. Longing for freedom and truth, Winston begins a quiet rebellion-but in a society where independent thought is a crime, even love becomes dangerous. With chilling precision, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) reveals how totalitarian regimes cru ...