In which George Orwell novel does the character Winston Smith appear?

Winston Smith appears in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, also commonly published as 1984. Winston is the story’s protagonist, an ordinary-looking Outer Party member living under the totalitarian rule of Big Brother.

He works at the Ministry of Truth, where he alters historical records so that the past matches the Party’s changing claims. His access to these revisions makes him increasingly aware of how power controls truth. Winston secretly keeps a diary, begins a forbidden relationship with Julia, and hopes that some form of resistance to the Party may exist.

The novel was published in 1949 and imagines a future dominated by surveillance, propaganda, Newspeak, and “doublethink.” Readers sometimes confuse Nineteen Eighty-Four with Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World or Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 because all three are major dystopian novels. Animal Farm is also by Orwell, but it is a separate political allegory rather than Winston Smith’s story.