- CD-ROM: 200 pages
- Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks; MP3 Una edition (April 1 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1433202476
- ISBN-13: 978-1433202476
- Product Dimensions: 19.1 x 13.5 x 1.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 45 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1,051 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,436,634 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written.
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'It is a volley against the authoritarian in every personality, a polemic against every orthodoxy, an anarchistic blast against every unquestioning conformist... Nineteen Eighty-Four is a great novel and a great tract because of the clarity of its call, and it will endure because its message is a permanent one: erroneous thought is the stuff of freedom'-Ben Pimlott
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A deep insight into the rule of a fascist state,
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This review is from: Nineteen Eighty-four. (Hardcover)
A powerful book, that eerily depicts the direction the world is going where truth is shunted and lies are promoted by all the mainstream media. The three slogans of the Party as described in book is very familiar with what we hear from our leaders in these times:War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength Orwell paints a picture of how this fascist totalitarian state is controlled by control surveillance, the new language of Newspeak and the three main ministries that are: "Ministry of Peace", which concerns itself with war "The Ministry of Truth", which takes care of news, entertainment, education etc. in short translated as the place of propaganda "The Mihistry of Love", which is concerned with law and order and according to Orwell the most frighening one. It is truly a must read book as the rise of fascism is happening. Can also highly recommend seeing the movie called "V for Vendetta", as it is also set in a fascist environment, that closely resembles the one George Orwell depicts in this book. Can recommend the book "Political Ponerology" to understand how a society becomes a fascist state.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A deep insight into the rule of a fascist state,
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This review is from: Nineteen Eighty Four (Paperback)
A powerful book, that eerily depicts the direction the world is going where truth is shunted and lies are promoted by all the mainstream media. The three slogans of the Party as described in book is very familiar with what we hear from our leaders in these times:War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength Orwell paints a picture of how this fascist totalitarian state is controlled by control surveillance, the new language of Newspeak and the three main ministries that are: "Ministry of Peace", which concerns itself with war "The Ministry of Truth", which takes care of news, entertainment, education etc. in short translated as the place of propaganda "The Mihistry of Love", which is concerned with law and order and according to Orwell the most frighening one. It is truly a must read book as the rise of fascism is happening. Can also highly recommend seeing the movie called "V for Vendetta", as it is also set in a fascist environment, that closely resembles the one George Orwell depicts in this book. Can recommend the book "Political Ponerology" to understand how a society becomes a fascist state.
5.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent must-read classic.,
By Edgar (Québec, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 1984 (Mass Market Paperback)
This is an excellently well written story of a meek rebel who's against the governement. It's hard to believe that it was published in 1948; it seems much more recent. Every aspect of the future is meticulously and interestingly explored (there's even an appendix of how the english languguage will be spoken in the future!) and fully feasible. Extremely recommended!
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