num_pages: 200
description: Blackstone Audio presents a new recording of this immensely 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. He knows even as he continues to pursue his forbidden love affair that eventually he will come to destruction. 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. It is a prophetic and haunting tale that exposes the worst crimes the destruction of freedom and truth.
language: English
title: 1984
titlecomplete: 1984
characters: Emmanuel Goldstein, Big Brother, O'Brien, Syme, Mr. Charrington, Tom Parsons, Winston Smith, Julia
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Politics, School, Literature, Adult, Classics, Novels, Fantasy, Dystopia
ratings_count: 4352941
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, awardedAt: 1672560000000
name: Audie Award
category: Audio Drama
publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks