By:
George Orwell
Grade Level:
When Nineteen Eighty-four appeared thirty-four years ago, it was hailed by novelist James Hilton in the New York Herald Tribune as a “virtuoso literary performance with a sustained brilliance that has rarely been matched in other works of its genre.” Eminent literary critic Lionel Trilling proclaimed, “Nineteen Eighty-four confirms its author in the special honorable place he holds in our intellectual life.