Nineteen Eighty-Four the novel, Winston Smith, is a rank-and-file Party member. Smith is an outwardly diligent and skillful worker, but he secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion against Big Brother. Smith rebels by entering a forbidden relationship with fellow employee Julia. As literary political fiction and dystopian science-fiction, "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is a classic novel in content, plot, and style. Many of its terms and concepts, such as "Big Brother", "doublethink", "thoughtcrime", "Newspeak", "Room 101", "telescreen", "2 + 2 = 5", and "memory hole", have entered into common usage since its publication in 1949. "Nineteen Eighty-Four" popularised the adjective "Orwellian", which
George Orwell bibliography Peter Davison, which began publication in the mid-1980s. The latter includes an addendum, "The Lost Orwell" (2007). The impact of Orwell's large corpus is manifested in additions to the Western canon such as "Nineteen Eighty-Four", its subjection to continued public notice and scholarly analyses, and the changes to vernacular English it has effected—notably the adoption of "Orwellian" as a description of totalitarian societies. Orwell wrote six novels: "Burmese Days", "A Clergyman's Daughter", "Keep the Aspidistra Flying", "Coming Up for Air", "Animal Farm" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four". Most of these were semi-autobiographical. "Burmese Days" was inspired by his period working as an