1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmare vision
in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. "1984" is
still the great modern classic "negative Utopia" - a startling 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 this novel's power, its hold on the imagination of whole
generations, or the power of its admonitions - a power that seems to
grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.