| 1984: Big Brother Is Watching You Contributor(s): Orwell, George (Author), Prebble, Simon (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1433202468 ISBN-13: 9781433202469 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: May 2007 Annotation: George Orwells prophetic, nightmarish vision of "Negative Utopia" is timelierthan ever--and its warnings more powerful. Unabridged. 9 CDs. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 5.82" W x 5.78" (0.60 lbs) 9 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Orwell, George: - George Orwell (1903-1950), the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, was an English novelist, essayist, and critic. He was born in India and educated at Eton. After service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, he returned to Europe to earn his living by writing and became notable for his simplicity of style and his journalistic or documentary approach to fiction. Prebble, Simon: -Simon Prebble, a British-born performer, is a stage and television actor and veteran narrator of some three hundred audiobooks. As one of AudioFile's Golden Voices, he has received over twenty Earphones Awards and won the prestigious Audie in 2010. He lives in New York. |