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1984
George Orwell
Audio Cassette (Blackstone Audiobooks, Jan. 1, 1991)Orwell depicts a gray world dominated by Big Brother and its vast network of agents, including the Thought Police, quashing freedom in a totalitarian 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.
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1984
George Orwell
Audio Cassette (Blackstone Audio Inc., Sept. 3, 2007)Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian world in which privacy does not exist, news is manufactured according to the authorities' will, and those with unorthodox ideas are brainwashed or put to death. Orwell's 1949 nightmare vision of the world we were becoming is still the great modern classic of negative Utopia.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
Hardcover (Harcourt, Jan. 1, 2003)None
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George Orwell's "1984"
George Orwell
Audio Cassette (Metacom, June 1, 1992)None
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Orwell, George
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Hardcover (Harcourt Brace, March 15, 1949)None
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1984
George Orwell, Richard Brown
Audio CD (Blackstone Audio Inc, Sept. 30, 2004)None
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1984
George Orwell, Simon Prebble
Preloaded Digital Audio Player (Blackstone Pub, Sept. 1, 2008)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 of the world he feared we were becoming in 1949 is still the great modern classic of negative Utopia.
