10 best classic political novels

5. 1984, by George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell, Plume Books, 368 pp.

Orwell's dystopic 1984 tells the story of an eerily familiar world where complacent citizens are ruled by an allpowerful, all-seeing government. Winston works for the Ministery of Truth, where he alters the past to fit the "Party" 's view of the present. Dissident thoughts are tracked down by the Thought Police and Winston's attempts at true love and rebellion are shattered. This novel with disturb you with its very plausibility.

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