1984Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. George Orwell, 1984 Nineteen Eighty Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwells ninth and final book