1984 / by George Orwell.
Material type: SoundPublisher number: DD8269 | Recorded BooksPublication details: [Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Audiobooks, 2007.Description: 9 audio discs (approximately 11.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 inContent type:- spoken word
- audio
- audio disc
- 9781433202445
- 1433202441
- 9781433202469
- 1433202468
- Nineteen eighty-four
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Audiobook | Main Library | Audiobook | FICTION Orwell, George | Available | 33111009064094 |
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Blackstone Audio presents a new recording of this immensely popular book.
George Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian world dominated by Big Brother and its vast network of agents, including the Thought Police, a world in which news is manufactured according to the authorities' will and people live tepid lives by rote.
Winston Smith, the hero with no heroic qualities, longs only for truth and decency. But living in a social system in which privacy does not exist and where those with unorthodox ideas are brainwashed or put to death, he knows there is no hope for him. He knows even as he continues to pursue his forbidden love affair that eventually he will come to destruction.
The year 1984 has come and gone, yet George Orwell's nightmare vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is still the great modern classic of negative Utopia. It is a prophetic and haunting tale that exposes the worst crimes imaginable: the destruction of freedom and truth.
Unabridged.
Duration: 11:30:00.
Read by Simon Prebble.
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.