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Top Ten Dystopian Novels

George Orwell (1903-1950)

An English novelist and essayist George Orwell’s most famous works are Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four out of which Nineteen Eighty Four is the most successful finest example of dystopian fiction.

Nineteen Eighty Four (1949), set in near future, is the most widely read and discussed novel for its dystopian content and style. The text basically deals with horrific impact of the totalitarianism and the public surveillance on the natural behaviour of the people. The novel also predicts the inevitable destruction of the world where wars, government surveillance and jingoism will surely fall on people across the globe. The use of phrases like—Big-brother, doublethink, thought-crime, ...

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