1984:
Written by: George Orwell
Narrated by: Simon
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Time: 11 Hours 24 Minutes
George
Orwell depicts a grey, 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.