George Orwell

A first edition, first printing of Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.

• George Orwell (English).
• London: Secker and Warburg, 1949.
• The green and red dust jackets were issued simultaneously with no priority between them. 
• Publisher's original pale green cloth with lettering to spine in red, in the original and unclipped dust jacket designed by Michael Kennard.

Nineteen Eighty-Four has become a classic literary example of political and dystopian fiction. It also popularised the term "Orwellian" as an adjective, with many terms used in the novel entering common usage, including "Big Brother", "doublethink", "Thought Police", "thought crime", "Newspeak", and "2 + 2 = 5".

Parallels have been drawn between the novel's subject matter and real life instances of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and violations of freedom of expression among other themes. Time magazine included the novel on its list of the 100 best English language novels from 1923 to 2005, and it was placed on the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels list, reaching number 13 on the editors' list and number 6 on the readers' list.