num_pages: 12
description: 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, a 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 of the world we were becoming in 1949 is still the great modern classic portrait of a negative Utopia.
language: English
title: Nineteen Eighty-Four
titlecomplete: Nineteen Eighty-Four
characters: Julia, Tom Parsons, Emmanuel Goldstein, Syme, Mr. Charrington, O'Brien, Winston Smith, Big Brother
genres: Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Politics, School, Adult, Literature, Fantasy, Novels
ratings_count: 4352710
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, awardedAt: 1672560000000
name: Audie Award
category: Audio Drama
publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks