Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell • 1949
Devastation Rating
dystopian political love literary fiction philosophical
Our Take
Orwell wrote the grammar of totalitarianism and we have been living inside it ever since. Room 101 breaks Winston not with violence but with the knowledge of what he would sacrifice to survive it. The love story makes the ending worse. It was always supposed to.
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