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George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) (1903–1950) was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. The family moved to England in 1907 and in 1917 Orwell entered Eton, where he contributed regularly to the various college magazines. From 1922 to 1927 he served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, an experience that inspired his first novel Burmese Days. Several years of poverty followed. He lived in Paris for two years before returning to England, where he worked successively as a private tutor, schoolteacher and bookshop assistant, and contributed reviews and articles to a number of periodicals. At the end of 1936 Orwell went to Spain to fight for the Republicans and was wounded. Homage to Catalonia is his account of the civil war. He was admitted to a sanatorium in 1938 and from then on was never fully fit. During the Second World War he served in the Home Guard and worked for the BBC Eastern Service from 1941 to 1943. His unique political allegory, Animal Farm, was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with Nineteen Eighty-Four, which brought him world-wide fame.

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Title:

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Written by:

George Orwell 

Read by:

Andrew Wincott 

Format:

Unabridged CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

10 

Duration:

12 hours 19 minutes 

Published:

June 01 2020 

Available Date:

June 01 2020 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9780655669647 

Genres:

Fiction; Science Fiction 

Publisher:

Bolinda/Canongate audio 

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One of the great classics of the twentieth century, 1984 is a startlingly original and arresting novel about tyranny and the universal struggle of the individual against the malevolent tendencies of the modern state.

Big Brother is watching you … 1984 is the year in which it happens. The world is divided into three superstates. In Oceania, the Party’s power is absolute. Every action, word, gesture and thought is monitored under the watchful eye of Big Brother and the Thought Police. In the Ministry of Truth, the Party’s department for propaganda, Winston Smith’s job is to edit the past. Over time, the impulse to escape the machine and live independently takes hold of him and he embarks on a secret and forbidden love affair. As he writes the words ‘down with Big Brother’, his personal rebellion begins … George Orwell’s masterpiece is the definitive dystopian novel and one of the most influential works of the 20th century. It is as relevant today as it was when first published in 1949.

'I read it again, and again … right up there among my favourite books.'
Margaret Atwood

'The book of the twentieth century … haunts us with an ever-darker relevance.'
The Independent