1984 - 00.nfo
General Information
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Title: 1984
Author: George Orwell
Read By: Frank Muller; No
Copyright: 1986
Audiobook Copyright: 1986
Genre: Sci-Fi
Abridged: No
Original Media Information
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Condition: Good
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Total Duration: 9:45:54
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Book Description
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While the totalitarianism that provoked George Orwell into writing 'Nineteen
Eighty-Four' seems to be passing into oblivion, his harrowing, cautionary
tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has had the opposite
fate, and its relevance and power to disturb our complacency seem to
grow decade by decade.
Nineteen Eighty-Four (first published in 1949) by George Orwell is a
dystopian novel about Oceania, a society ruled by the oligarchical dictatorship
of the Party.[1] Life in the Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a
world of perpetual war, pervasive government surveillance, and incessant
public mind control, accomplished with a political system euphemistically
named English Socialism (Ingsoc), which is administrated by a privileged
cult of personality of Big Brother, the deified Party leader who rules
with a philosophy that decries individuality and reason as thoughtcrimes;
thus the people of Oceania are subordinated to a supposed collective
greater good.[3] The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a member of the
Outer Party who works for the Ministry of Truth (Minitrue), which is
responsible for propaganda and historical revisionism. His job is to
re-write past newspaper articles so that the historical record is congruent
with the current party doctrine.[4] Because of the childhood trauma
against Big Brother.
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