1984

Format:

Electronic Resources

Title:

1984

Other title(s):

Nineteen eighty-four

Uniform Title:

Nineteen eighty-four

Author:

Orwell, George, 1903-1950.

ISBN:

9781606406984

Edition:

Unabridged.

Publication:

Solon, OH : Findaway World, LLC, [2008]

Physical Description:

1 audio media player (approximately 11.5 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.

General Note:

Title from Playaway label.

Release date supplied by publisher.

"Playaway, the all-in-one audiobook"--Container

Previously released by Blackstone Audio, Inc., ℗2007.

In container (21 x 13 x 3 cm.) with earphones, AAA battery and lanyard.

Summary:

In a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the Thought Police can practically read your mind, Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. He knows the Party's official image of the world is a fluid fiction. He knows the Party controls the people by feeding them lies and narrowing their imaginations through a process of bewilderment and brutalization that alienates each individual from his fellows and deprives him of every liberating human pursuit from reasoned inquiry to sexual passion. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.

Subject(s):

Totalitarianism -- Fiction.

London (England) -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

London (England) -- Fiction.

England -- London

Genre:

Playaway (Preloaded audio player)

Added Author:

Added Corporate Author:

Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Playaway Digital Audio.

Findaway World, LLC.

Holds:

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Summary

Retells the classic story set in a future time when a totalitarian government watchesover all citizens and directs all activities.

Author Notes

George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair on June 25, 1903 in Motihari in Bengal, India and later studied at Eton College for four years. He was an assistant superintendent with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. He left that position after five years and moved to Paris, where he wrote his first two books: Burmese Days and Down and Out in Paris and London. He then moved to Spain to write but decided to join the United Workers Marxist Party Militia. After being decidedly opposed to communism, he served in the British Home Guard and with the Indian Service of the BBC during World War II. After the war, he wrote for the Observer and was literary editor for the Tribune.

His best known works are Animal Farm and 1984. His other works include A Clergyman's Daughter, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, The Road to Wigan Pier, Homage to Catalonia, and Coming Up for Air. He died on January 21, 1950 at the age of 46.

(Bowker Author Biography)