1984 [Unabridged] [Audio CD]

George Orwell (Author), Richard Brown (Narrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 2004

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.

Editorial Reviews

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"Orwell's best-known work ... Reader Richard Brown... successfully captures Orwell's hard-bitten cynicism." -- Audio File

About the Author

GEORGE ORWELL (1903-1950), the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, was an English novelist, essayist, and critic. He was born in India and educated at Eton. After service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, he returned to Europe to earn his living by writing and became notable for his simplicity of style and his journalistic or documentary approach to fiction.

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks; Unabridged edition (November 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786183926
• ISBN-13: 978-0786183920
• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 5 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,127,042 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #5 in Books > Books on CD > Authors, A-Z > ( O ) > Orwell, George

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good book - strange choice of reader, September 29, 2005

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C Wilson "cwilson466" (denver, co) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: 1984 (Audio CD)

I loved the story. The only problem I found with the audio CD version was that the reader's voice was very high pitched and I had to turn the trebble completely off to keep it from hurting my ears.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Looking at a future that is now past, November 3, 2006

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Hugh L. Evans (New Jersey) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 1984 (Audio CD)

I greatly enjoyed this audio book, partly because the narrator's vocal gifts brought alive the various characters and thier accents. I also enjoyed revisitng a book that I had read long ago, in the earlry years of my life. I now was able to see more clearly the fears inspired by the Communist party in post-war Eastern Europe and China, and how those events inspired Orwell's writing of this book and the reactions of his audience.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Work., September 14, 2006

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Meir Ben David "You will bring light unto the... (Massachusetts, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 1984 (Audio CD)

Richard Brown's voice is perfect for 1984 - a novel about a distopia. I listened to this while driving to work in my car. This is a very deep, thoughtful novel to begin with. It is made so real by a good actor. I highly recommend this.