The Books That Forecast About the Future

"1984" (Nineteen Eighty-Four):

Undoubtedly George Orwell’s most popular book, ‘1984’ published in 1949 is the definitive novel of the 20th century that describes a dystopian future.

This story remains eternally fresh and contemporary, and terms like "Big Brother", "doublethink" and "newspeak" that have used in the novel have become part of everyday language.

Nineteen Eighty-Four has been translated into over 65 languages and millions of copies was sold worldwide, giving George Orwell a unique place in world literature.

Excerpts from the novel: "There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to."

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