May 19, 2007
George Orwell 1984 - Audiobook
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1984 by George Orwell is a real classic and this is a new edition and in audiobook format. Simon Prebble is the narrator and the book is published by Blackstone Audio Inc.
"It is probable that no other work of this generation has made us desire freedom more earnestly or loathe tyranny with such fullness."Mark Shorer, New York Times, 1949
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.
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I had, of course, read this book, studied it in school, and seen the movie, but it had been decades since my last exposure to it. Since hearing Simon Prebble’s masterful performance of this book I am very glad to now own it. Saying that everyone should read it, or better yet hear it performed by Mr. Prebble, at least every decade in order to keep at the front of our minds the risks of allowing government to usurp the rights and freedoms of the population, while true, unfortunately sounds like Big Brother. Seriously, Simon Prebble’s superb performance elucidates the meaning and brings the characters to life so that you not only feel you are seeing and hearing them, but so that you feel what they feel. Once heard, you will want to hear it at far more frequent intervals for a variety of reasons, one being simple pleasure in a superb book superbly performed.