![]() ![]() The essay is a vivid and harrowing account of his time spent in a homeless shelter in London. Orwell's first published work was an essay titled "The Spike," which appeared in 1931. Here we focus on his works "The Spike" and "A Hanging," and his time as a police officer in Burma. I can't say enough about his performance for this novel.It was George Orwell's early writing that helped shape his worldview and writing style. MINISTRY OF PLENTY Simon Prebble is excellent, absolutely excellent. The reader feels for the couple, wishes them happiness, yet dreads the ultimate outcome of them being caught. Yet, he and she know that they will get caught and that they will be tortured. Life almost takes on a certain type of normalcy. Somehow, he is able to find places of privacy and to have an affair. He must hide these facts from the ever watching eye of Big Brother. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY Winston is lonely and he hates the party. If the party said something a year ago, which does not agree with what they said today, then all written material from the past must be changed to show that what they said today is what they have always said. At work, Winston's job is to change history. Their kids usually end up turning against them and reported them to the party. Those that are married rarely love each other, they only have sex to do their duty to the party. Few people are married and sex is frowned upon. In the morning he is awakened by the television, expected to get out of bed and follow the leader on the TV in morning exercises, if he does not bend over far enough, his name is announced over a speaker in his room and he better perform properly. Everything he says is listened to, his facial expressions are examined and if he does not look and act the way the party expects, he could be vanished. His apartment has a camera, his job, everywhere he goes. Winston is watched his whole life, he has no privacy. HOW MANY FINGERS DO YOU SEE? WAR IS PEACE Part one is the introduction and we learn what it is like to live in this society through the eyes of Winston. The ability to alter the mind, to control your very thoughts, to make you love what you hated, to turn yourself against yourself. Russia, North Korea and Nazi Germany can not compete with the torture practices of the party. Horror is one of my specialties, but no fiction book written with the sole purpose of horror can match the suspense and reality of Part 3. Part 3 is filled with suspense and torture. ![]() ![]() IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH This amazing thought provoking, scary, unforgettable?, timeless classic is a must read. If you haven't read this book, you owe it to yourself to give this version a listen- it will challenge you and touch you, and I know that I, for one, will never be the same. Orwell's insight into history, warfare and mass hysteria reflect the era in which he was writing, and still endure in this classic of science fiction- a piece that anticipates not only future works in the genre, but twentieth and twenty first century issues of foreign policy and state welfare. Depite the constant threat of the telescreens, spies and thought police, Winston and his love interest, Julia, endeavor to rebel against Big Brother in their own ways. In this novel, we are transported to an alternate reality where history is overwritten and free thought is a crime. However, This five star version of Orwell's masterpiece is so well voiced, so expressive that I find it hard to put down. I previously downloaded a version of 1984 that sounded as if the thought police had shoved the novel where no darkness shines. It is a prophetic and haunting tale that exposes the worst crimes imaginable: the destruction of freedom and truth. 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. He knows even as he continues to pursue his forbidden love affair that eventually he will come to destruction. 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. Winston Smith, the hero with no heroic qualities, longs only for truth and decency. ![]() 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. One of the most celebrated classics of the twentieth century, Orwell’s cautionary tale of a man trapped under the gaze of an authoritarian state feels more relevant now than ever before. Blackstone Publishing presents a new recording of this immensely popular book. ![]()
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