Nineteen Eighty-Four is a novel.
Oceania , Eurasia and Eastasia are the three fictional superstates in George Orwell 's satirical dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four '' . Nineteen Eighty-Four . In 2003 , the novel was listed at number 8 on the BBC 's survey The Big Read . The Big Read was a survey on books carried out by the BBC in the United Kingdom in 2003 , where over three quarters of a million votes were received from the British public to find the nation 's best-loved novel of all time .