1985

By Anthony Burgess Anthony Burgess

Subjects: Future life, Utopias, Nineteen eighty-four (Orwell, George), British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction in English

Description: Ingenious, chilling and darkly comic, 1985 combines a devastating critique of Orwell's 1984 with a terrifying vision of the future. As memorable as A Clockwork Orange, it is as powerful and unsettling as anything Burgess has written. First published in 1978, its thoughts and ideas still hold very true today.