Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. His dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever. 1984 is powerful and convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the influence of this novel, its hold on the imaginations of multiple generations of readers, or the resiliency of its admonitions—a legacy that seems only to grow with the passage of time.