It was published in June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell’s ninth and final book completed in his lifetime
The story was mostly written at Barnhill, a farmhouse on the Scottish island of Jura, at times while Orwell suffered from severe tuberculosis
Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centers on the consequences of government over-reach, totalitarianism and repressive regimentation of all persons and behaviors within society
