1984
aka Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel

George Orwell (Author)
Andrew Wincott (Narrator)
Secker & Warburg (Original Book Publisher)
Canongate Books (Audiobook Publisher)


Release Date: 1949-06-08 (Original Release)
Release Date: 2015-11-15 (Audiobook Release)
Language: English
ASIN: B016E6E2AW (Digital version)

Audio Files: 25 m4b (= aac with chapters)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (Unabridged) - 0xy.m4b
Format: M4B 63Kbps VBR Stereo
Duration: 12hours 19minutes 27seconds
337 MB (353,512,997 bytes)
Ripping notes:
Lossless decryption of original Audible .aax file to .m4b done by inAudible v 1.69a (True Decrypt option)

Text Files:
George Orwell - 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing 1987.epub
George Orwell - 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four - Penguin Group 2003.epub


Information:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four  
  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34615046-nineteen-eighty-four  
  https://www.audible.com/pd/1984-Audiobook/B016E9QOP0  

Wikipedia:
Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated.

The story takes place in an imagined future, the year 1984, when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and propaganda. Great Britain, known as Airstrip One, has become a province of a totalitarian superstate named Oceania that is ruled by the Party who employ the Thought Police to persecute individuality and independent thinking. Big Brother, the leader of the Party, enjoys an intense cult of personality despite the fact that he may not even exist. The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a diligent and skillful rank-and-file worker and Outer Party member who secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion. He enters into a forbidden relationship with a colleague, Julia, and starts to remember what life was like before the Party came to power.

Nineteen Eighty-Four has become a classic literary example of political and dystopian fiction. It also popularised the term "Orwellian" as an adjective, with many terms used in the novel entering common usage, including "Big Brother", "doublethink", "Thought Police", "thoughtcrime", "Newspeak", "memory hole", "2 + 2 = 5", "proles", "Two Minutes Hate", "telescreen", and "Room 101". Time included it on its 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. It was placed on the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels, reaching No. 13 on the editors' list and No. 6 on the readers' list. In 2003, the novel was listed at No. 8 on The Big Read survey by the BBC. Parallels have been drawn between the novel's subject matter and real life instances of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and violations of freedom of expression among other themes.

Goodreads:
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 twentieth century