LEADER 00000nim 22005535i 4500 001 MWT16138718 003 MWT 005 20230818115016.1 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 230818s2021 xxunnn es f n gre d 020 9789604368877|q(sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 9604368877|q(sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 028 42 MWT16138718 037 16138718|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 040 Midwest|beng|erda|cCtWisLCI 082 04 823.914|223 099 eAudiobook hoopla 100 1 |6880-01|aOrwell, George,|d1903-1950,|eauthor. 245 10 1984 /|cGeorge Orwell. 246 3 Nineteen eighty-four 250 Unabridged. 264 1 [United States] :|bAuvril Audiobooks,|c2021. 264 2 |bMade available through hoopla. 300 1 online resource (1 audio file (12hr., 40 min.)) : |bdigital 336 spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 344 digital|hdigital recording|2rda 347 data file|2rda 506 Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 1 Read by Konstantinos Lagos. 520 A world where every human right has been violated and every notion of freedom and individuality is abolished. A world where Big Brother monitors everything through advanced technology devices. A world where the war against an invisible enemy never ends, thoughts go underground and any deviation from the dictates of the regime is punished relentlessly until it is "corrected". A world where those in power have the power to alter the past and deny the self-existence of reality, a world where language and its words change to keep up with the new A verified dystopian vision in the form of a novel, 1984, one of those few works that have accurately defined their century, continues to warn us more than seventy years after its publication that totalitarianism, with all its mass of illusions, knows no measure or limit, nor does it belong definitively to the past. The book was published just seven months before the author's death from tuberculosis in January 1950. Apart from the futuristic environment described (and which was twice adapted for the cinema, in 1956 and 1984, without great success on both occasions, despite Sir Richard Burton's participation in the latter), apart from its apt predictions about mass surveillance, the nature of authoritarian regimes and the levelling out of any notion of difference, what is even more striking are the neologisms that remain handy to this day: Terms such as "Big Brother", "Thought Police", "SexCrime" and the famous "Cold War" - which he himself coined a few years ago - are not only used daily, but are so apt that one wonders how a human mind could have conceived them a full seven decades ago. .. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 0 Totalitarianism|y20th century|vFiction. 650 0 Political persecution|zEngland|zLondon|y20th century |vFiction. 650 0 Conspiracies|zEngland|zLondon|y20th century|vFiction. 650 0 Dystopias|zEngland|zLondon|y20th century|vFiction. 700 1 Lagos, Konstantinos. 730 0 hoopla (Digital media service) 880 1 |6100-01/(S|aΟργουελ, Τζορτζ,|d1903-1950,|eauthor. 880 |6250-00/(S|a1η έκδοση. 880 1 |6264-03/(S|aΑθηνα :|bΕκδοσεισ Μινωασ,|cΙανουάριος 2021. 880 10 |6245-02/(S|a1984 /|cΤζορτζ Οργουελ ; μεταφραση: Αλέξης Καλοφωλιάς. 914 MWT16138718 947 MARCIVE Processed 2023/11/09