BBC Radio 4, 2013. - MP3, 128 kbps. - 2h. Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway. Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth. Sick and separated from his wife, he lives alone in a one-room flat in Victory Mansions in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love, he discovers...
Recorded Books, 1987. - MP3, 54 kbps, 48 kHz, mono. Nineteen Eighty-Four (or 1984) is an English dystopian novel by George Orwell, written in 1948 and published in 1949. It is the story of the life of the intellectual Winston Smith, his job in the Ministry of Truth, and his degradation by the totalitarian government of Oceania, the country in which he lives. It has been...
Read by Frank Muller. - Recorded Books, 1987. - MP3, 54 kbps, 48 kHz, mono. Nineteen Eighty-Four (or 1984) is an English dystopian novel by George Orwell, written in 1948 and published in 1949. It is the story of the life of the intellectual Winston Smith, his job in the Ministry of Truth, and his degradation by the totalitarian government of Oceania, the country in which he...
Blackstone Audiobooks, 1991. - MP3, 96 kbps. - 11:31:59. 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. Winston Smith, the hero with no heroic qualities, longs only for truth and...
Blackstone Audiobooks, 1991. - MP3, 96 kbps. - 11:31:59. 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. Winston Smith, the hero with no heroic qualities, longs only for truth and...
Blackstone Audiobooks, 1991. - MP3, 96 kbps. - 11:31:59. 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. Winston Smith, the hero with no heroic qualities, longs only for truth and...
Blackstone Audio. - MP3, 80 kbps. - 11:23:24. 1984 depicts a gray world dominated by Big Brother and its vast network of agents, quashing freedom in a totalitarian world, where news is manufactured according to the authorities’ will and people live by rote. Dissidents are disciplined into being willing tools of their masters. Winston Smith lives in this social system where...
Blackstone Audio. - MP3, 80 kbps. - 11:23:24. 1984 depicts a gray world dominated by Big Brother and its vast network of agents, quashing freedom in a totalitarian world, where news is manufactured according to the authorities’ will and people live by rote. Dissidents are disciplined into being willing tools of their masters. Winston Smith lives in this social system where...
Read by Patrick Toll. - MP3, 92 kbps. Victor Gollancz. This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer among the down-and-out of two great cities. The Parisian episode is fascinating for its expose of the kitchens of posh French restaurants, where the narrator works at...
Read by Patrick Toll. - MP3, 92 kbps. Victor Gollancz. This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer among the down-and-out of two great cities. The Parisian episode is fascinating for its expose of the kitchens of posh French restaurants, where the narrator works at...
Read by Patrick Tull. - Recorded books. - MP3, 32 kbps. - 08:05:25. Homage to Catalonia is political journalist and novelist George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish Civil War.
Read by Joseph Millson, Lyndsey Marshal, etc. - BBC Radio 4. - MP3, 256-224 kbps. - 2h. Adapted by Mike Walker. In 1936 Eric and Eileen Blair were making ends meet by running a small village shop in Wallington and growing vegetables. Eric had recently sent 'The Road to Wigan Pier' to Victor Gollancz, hoping it would be published. But then news came from Spain that Franco's...
Read by Patrick Tull. — ISIS, 1989. — 64 kbps. — Duration 07:30:00. A searing account of George Orwell’s experiences of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. His graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice,...
Read by Patrick Tull. — ISIS, 1989. — 64 kbps. — Duration 07:30:00. A searing account of George Orwell’s experiences of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. His graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice,...
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