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 , often published as 1984 , is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell . As literary political fiction and dystopian science-fiction , Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic novel in content , plot and style .