num_pages: 326
description: Nineteen Eighty-Four revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth century’s greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has had the opposite fate: its relevance and power to disturb our complacency seem to grow decade by decade. In Winston Smith’s desperate struggle to free himself from an all-encompassing, malevolent state, Orwell zeroed in on tendencies apparent in every modern society, and made vivid the universal predicament of the individual.--front flap
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: 4351918
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, awardedAt: 1672560000000
name: Audie Award
category: Audio Drama
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf