Premise: Nineteen Eighty-Four , often published as 1984 , is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell . The protagonist of the novel , Winston Smith , is a member of the Outer Party , who works for the Ministry of Truth ( or Minitrue in Newspeak ) , which is responsible for propaganda and historical revisionism . In 2005 , the novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005 .
Hypothesis: Nineteen Eighty-Four is fiction.
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