Nineteen Eighty-Four two novels, including Huxley's own "Brave New World Revisited". Comparisons with other dystopian novels like "The Handmaid's Tale", "Virtual Light", "The Private Eye" and "The Children of Men" have also been drawn. Nineteen Eighty-Four Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel by English writer George Orwell published in June 1949. The novel is set in the year 1984 when most of the world population have become victims of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and propaganda. In the novel, Great Britain ("Airstrip One") has become a province of a superstate named Oceania. Oceania is ruled by the "Party",
The Refuge (novel) The Refuge (novel) The Refuge (1954) is the final novel by Australian author Kenneth Mackenzie. Late one night Lloyd Fitzherbert, who works as a police reporter for the Sydney "Gazette", is called to Sydney Harbour where the body of a young woman has been found. The woman is Fiztherbert's lover and, as is immediately obvious, he is the one who killed here. Reviewing the 2015 re-issue of the novel, Peter Craven, in "The Sydney Morning Herald", noted that the novel "is some kind of psychological thriller and it is not one of the books by which all others are to