Nineteen Eighty-Four is a novel.
Nineteen Eighty-Four . Nineteen Eighty-Four popularised the adjective Orwellian , which describes official deception , secret surveillance , and manipulation of recorded history by a totalitarian or authoritarian state . Orwellian . Often , this includes the circumstances depicted in his novels , particularly Nineteen Eighty-Four but political double-speak is criticized throughout his work , such as in Politics and the English Language .