1984

New Classic Edition

audio cd, 200 pages

English language

Published Sept. 3, 2007 by Blackstone Audio Inc..

ISBN:
978-1-4332-0246-9
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OCLC Number:
154698369

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Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair). It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated.

Also contained in:
Novels (Animal Farm / Burmese Days / Clergyman's Daughter / Coming Up for Air / Keep the Aspidistra Flying / Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Novels (Animal Farm / Nineteen Eighty-Four) Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: Text, Sources, Criticism

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4 stars

Si bien Orwell al ser social demócrata tenía sus opiniones tanto acerca del comunismo y del fascismo, unas más fuertes que otras, retrata lo vivido y que se puede vivir bajo el totalitarismo ya que este se puede dar en diferentes contextos y en diferentes gobiernos, llevando a tomar consciencia de que la realidad obtenida bajo el liberalismo se puede quebrar al darle paso a discursos totalitarios sin analizar antes lo que con lleva en sí

Review of 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

This review is cross-posted from my blog here: daariga.wordpress.com/2017/10/23/nineteen-eighty-four/

To
be honest, I did not really believe that Nineteen Eighty-Four would be any different from the other two of the dystopian triad: Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451. While I was proved right, this work by George Orwell turned out to be the most terrifying of the three. In 1984, the world is a surveillance state where everyone is constantly monitored by telescreens. Any deviant behavior will lead to re-education, hard labor, torture or even death. The protagonist Winston Smith works at the Ministry of Truth, where he (ironically) alters past news articles to match the present reality. Everything from books, to communication to thoughts have to toe the Party line. Everyone is beholden to the ultimate Party leader, the Big Brother, whose face is plastered everywhere, but whom no one has seen. The Party pummels the citizens …

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