Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent - even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101...Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime. (Source: Penguin Books)

Shotaro Ishinomori's manga adaptation of George Orwell's *Animal Farm*, an allegorical tale about the horrors of dictatorship and totalitarianism.

Two must-read masterpieces have been miraculously adapted into manga: Haruki Murakami's internationally acclaimed romantic short story "Hotaru", and George Orwell's dystopian tale "1984," which predicted the arrival of an ultra-surveillance society! (Source: Kawade Shobo Shinsha, translated)

Based on the dystopian novel *Nineteen Eighty-Four* (1984).