Series
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell, Mike Dean & Sandra Newman · 2 novels · 2 short stories · 1949–2023
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) is George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future Britain kept under constant surveillance and thought control, following Winston Smith's doomed attempt at a private rebellion against the ruling Party. Sandra Newman's Julia (2023), written with the Orwell estate's authorization, retells the same events from the point of view of Winston's lover Julia, filling in a life and set of motives the original largely left offstage.
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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- 1940s2
- 1950s0
- 1960s0
- 1970s0
- 1980s0
- 1990s0
- 2000s1
- 2010s0
- 2020s1
Shape
2 novels · 2 short stories
3 authors
reads like:dystopiatotalitarianismeuropemid 20th centurydarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Nineteen Eighty-Fourdarkest
- Appendix: The Principles of Newspeakbrightest · calmest
- Juliamost intense