Nineteen Eighty-four - George Orwell Reviews

Written 35 years before the year of the title, this book is on the face of it a thoroughly gripping novel relating to a vision of the future, and how one man tries to buck the trend. However to describe it in this way is to sell it remarkably short. In some senses the book can be read as anti-Communist, but it goes much deeper than that, asking ...  Read the complete review

I read George Orwell's 1984 a few months after reading Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Both books were set in the future and both predicted a number of things which have since come to pass. 1984 is one of those books that everyone has heard of, but probably haven't read. It is definitely worth reading and, considering it was ...  Read the complete review

This was one of my books for my GCSE English literature course. I really enjoyed it, especially because I understood the deeper meanings of the story. George Orwell is excellent at making his plots understandable at a multitude of levels. It is amazing how Orwell managed to predict certain principles about the future so well. I’m ...  Read the complete review

Having read Brave New World, I was expecting a novel very similar in content. However, 1984 is a refreshing change, mixing horror with science far beyond George Orwell's time. 1984 arms you with a frightening insight into what the future could hold as technology develops and science allows us to achieve some of what George Orwell has ...  Read the complete review