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Along with [[Aldous Huxley]]'s ''[[Brave New World]]'', ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' is among the most famous and cited works of [[dystopian]] [[fiction]] in [[literature]].<ref>{{cite book | last =Marcus | first = Laura | authorlink = | coauthors = Peter Nicholls | year = 2005 | title = The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature | publisher = Cambridge University Press | ___location = | id = ISBN 0-521-82077-4}} p. 226: "Brave New World [is] traditionally bracketed with Orwell's ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' as a dystopia…"</ref> The book has been translated into 62 languages and has left a profound impression upon the English language itself. ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'', its terminology and its author have become bywords when discussing privacy and state-security issues. The term "[[Orwellian]]" has come to describe actions or organizations reminiscent of the totalitarian society depicted in the novel.

The''Nineteen Book nineteen eighty fourEighty-Four'' has, at times, been seen as revolutionary and politically dangerous and therefore was banned by many libraries in various countries. Some people believe that Orwell was a man who saw the future and prophesied the loss of personal freedom and the increase in control that would be brought about. The year 2004 was referred to by some people as "nineteen eighty four, twenty years late".

==Novel history==