num_pages: 12
description: 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.
language: English
title: 1984
titlecomplete: 1984
characters: Emmanuel Goldstein, Tom Parsons, Big Brother, O'Brien, Syme, Julia, Mr. Charrington, Winston Smith
genres: Politics, Dystopia, Novels, Science Fiction, School, Literature, Fantasy, Classics, Adult, Fiction
ratings_count: 4351784
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, awardedAt: 1672560000000
name: Audie Award
category: Audio Drama
publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc