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1984: by George Orwell.

1984: by George Orwell.
1984
Complete and unabridged. Reader: Simon Prebble. Blackstone Audio presents a new recording of this dramatically popular book.George Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian worlddom- inated by Big Brother and its vast network of agents, includingt he Thought Police, a world in which news is manufactured accordingto the authorities' will and people live tepid lives by rote.Winst-on Smith, the hero with no heroic qualities, longs only for truthand decency. But living in a social system in which privacy doesnot exist and where those with unorthodox ideas are brainwashed orput to death, he knows there is no hope for him.The year 1984 hascome and gone, yet George Orwell's nightmare vision in 1949 of theworld we were becoming is still the great modern classic ofnegative Utopia.

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Record Number 408191
ISBN 9781433202469
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Author Orwell, George
Title 1984 by George Orwell.
Portion of title Nineteen eighty- four
Publication details [Ashland, Or.] : Blackstone Audio, 2007.
Pagination etc. 9 sound discs (CD) (ca. 11 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Contents note Complete and unabridged.
Performer note Reader: Simon Prebble.
Summary Note Blackstone Audio presents a new recording of this dramatically popular book.George Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian worlddom- inated by Big Brother and its vast network of agents, includingt he Thought Police, a world in which news is manufactured accordingto the authorities' will and people live tepid lives by rote.Winst-on Smith, the hero with no heroic qualities, longs only for truthand decency. But living in a social system in which privacy doesnot exist and where those with unorthodox ideas are brainwashed orput to death, he knows there is no hope for him.The year 1984 hascome and gone, yet George Orwell's nightmare vision in 1949 of theworld we were becoming is still the great modern classic ofnegative Utopia.
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