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Nineteen Eighty-Four Audiobook
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Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster and the Thought Police uncover each act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party.
Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent—even in the mind. For those with original thoughts, they invented Room 101.
The world-changing novel 1984 is George Orwell’s terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime. Christopher Eccleston, Tim Pigott-Smith, and Pippa Nixon star in this drama, adapted by Jonathan Holloway, part of BBC Radio 4’s Real George Orwell season.
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“Among the seminal texts of the twentieth century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real…The brilliance of the novel is Orwell’s prescience of modern life—the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language—and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell…It ranks among the most terrifying novels every written.”
— Amazon.com, editorial review
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“It is probable that no other work of this generation has made us desire freedom more earnestly or loathe tyranny with such fullness.”
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“It is probable that no other work of this generation has made us desire freedom more earnestly or loathe tyranny with such fullness.”
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“A profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book…Orwell’s theory of power is developed brilliantly.”
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“Orwell’s novel escorts us so quietly, so directly, and so dramatically from our own day to the fate which may be ours in the future, that the experience is a blood-chilling one.”
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“1984 is a remarkable book; as a virtuoso literary performance it has a sustained brilliance that has rarely been matched in other works of its genre…It is as timely as the label on a poison bottle.”
— New York Herald Tribune
Awards
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One of Modern Library's 100 Best English-Language Novels of the Twentieth Century
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Time Magazine's Best 100 English-Language Novels from 1923–2005
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About George Orwell
George Orwell (1903–1950), the pen name of Eric Arthur Blaire, was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and literary critic. He is best known for his works of social criticism and opposition to totalitarianism. He also wrote nonfiction about his experiences in the working class and as a solder. His work remains influential in popular culture and in political culture, and the adjective “Orwellian,"describing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices, has become part of the English language. In 2008, the London Times named him the second-greatest British writer since 1945.
About a full cast
Pedro Pablo Sacristán was born in Madrid and graduated with an MBA from a prestigious business school. His passion for education and writing led him to create Bedtime Stories, short stories that help teach kids values.