Nineteen Eighty FourThis is a UK first edition, second impression from 1949 with a facsimile jacket. There is minor foxing to blank end pages, no other internal markings, pages clean, binding firm. There is some minor marking to boards About Nineteen Eighty Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime.