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, 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. 

“It is probable that no other work of this generation has made us desire freedom more earnestly 
or loathe tyranny with such fullness.”—Mark Shorer, New York Times, 1949

Available Sept 1, 2007