The featured classic today is 1984 by George Orwell.
Synopsis:
The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of "negative utopia"--a startlingly original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing, from the first sentence to the last four words. No one can deny the novel's hold on the imaginations of the whole generations, or the power of its admonitions--a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.
Do you remember the Thought Police, Big Brother, doublethink, Newspeak? Test your memory with a quiz on 1984 at SparkNotes.
Read a summary of 1984 online at The Literature Network.
Have you read 1984? Did it make you think a dystopian society was actually possible?
