Details
Rent 1984: New Classic Edition
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Narrator: Simon Prebble
Format: Unabridged-CD, Paperback, Unabridged-MP3
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Published: May 2007
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Retail Price: $29.95
Synopsis
Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian world in which privacy does not exist, news is manufactured according to the authorities' will, and those with unorthodox ideas are brainwashed or put to death. Orwell's 1949 nightmare vision of the world we were becoming is still the great modern classic of negative Utopia.
Reviews
This is a must read classic. I found it very disturbing and not out of the realm of possibility. I gave it 4 instead of 5 because Orwell likes to hammer home his points, but it kind of goes on forever and ever and in some parts is quite brutal to get through.