1984 by George Orwell (75th Anniversary Edition)

1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmare vision of the world we were becoming, written in 1949, is timelier than ever. 1984 remains the great modern classic of "negative utopia," a startlingly original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world completely convincing from its first sentence to its last. No one can deny this novel's power, its hold on the imagination of whole generations, or the force of its warnings, a power that seems only to grow with the passage of time. This 75th anniversary edition brings Orwell's landmark work of dystopian fiction to a new generation of readers confronting many of the same questions about truth, surveillance and the erosion of independent thought. This book is featured on The Book Club with Michael Knowles, PragerU's show dedicated to the great books of Western civilization. In this episode, Michael Knowles is joined by Dave Rubin, host of The Rubin Report, to discuss why Orwell's warning against totalitarianism reads today less like fiction and more like a newspaper. 📺 Watch the episode: Dave Rubin — 1984 by George Orwell Own this 75th anniversary edition of Orwell's 1984, and discover why Big Brother's warning feels more urgent now than at any point since the novel was written.