Big Brother. Thought Police. Doublespeak. War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength. An indelible part of the 21st century social fabric and geopolitical reality, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four has gifted our culture these (now fundamental) concepts and much more. Completed in 1948 and first published mid-1949, the public recognized the book's biting satire of malignant bureaucracy...