Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian novel written by George Orwell, and published in 1949. It deals with such themes as oppression and brainwashing. It was, to an extent, George Orwell's comment on the path society was taking at the time it was written, something like: "If we don't change, then this is what we will have in the future". The novel is, of course, absolutely fascinating.
"The thought police would get him just the same. He had committed - would have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper - the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you."
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 1
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