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1984
Record details
- ISBN: 9781483050928 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1483050920 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (1 audio file (11hr., 30 min.)) : digital. - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [United States] : Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2007.
- Distributor: Made available through hoopla
Content descriptions
Restrictions on Access Note: | Digital content provided by hoopla. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Simon Prebble. |
Summary, etc.: | Blackstone Audio presents a new recording of this dramatically 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. 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. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Totalitarianism Fiction |
Genre: | Science fiction. Dystopias. |