Books+and+reference

Orwell, George. __Nineteen Eighty-Four__. London: Secker and Warburg, 1949.

//Nineteen Eighty-Four//, by George Orwell, is the ultimate dystopian novel, defining, in many ways, the genre in its modern form. Though it had predecessors (notably //Brave New World// by Aldous Huxley), //Nineteen Eighty-Four//, is the most well-known of the dystopian novels. As a notable political writer who fought in the Spanish Civil Wars, Orwell had a background allowing him to depict totalitarianism in a form more more applicable to the real-world. For the purposes of this project, it can be used as the primary source from which to draw traits of typical fictional dystopian societies. As a source that so pioneered the genre of dystopian novels, this is not really a source in which author bias really comes into play.