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- 1984 / [electronic resource]. by Orwell, George.; Prebble, Simon.;
Narrator: Simon Prebble.Blackstone Audio presents a new recording of this immensely popular book. 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 decency. 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. He knows even as he continues to pursue his forbidden love affair that eventually he will come to destruction. 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. It is a prophetic and haunting tale that exposes the worst crimes imaginable: the destruction of freedom and truth.Text Difficulty 9 - Text Difficulty 12Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 320702 KB).- Subjects: Electronic books.; Fiction.; Classic Literature.; Literature.;
- © 2005., Blackstone Audio, Inc., and Buck 50 Productions, LLC,
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- A tale of two cities / [electronic resource]. by Dickens, Charles.; Prebble, Simon.;
Narrator: Simon Prebble.Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities is a sprawling tale of London and revolutionary Paris with a complex plot portraying the results of terror and treason, love and supreme sacrifice. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." The opening line of A Tale of Two Cities. It was the time of the French Revolution, a time of great change and great danger. It was a time when injustice was met by a lust for vengeance, and rarely was a distinction made between the innocent and the guilty. Against this tumultuous historical backdrop, Dickens' dramatic story of adventure and courage unfolds.Unjustly imprisoned for eighteen years in the Bastille, Dr. Alexandre Manette is reunited with his daughter, the gentle Lucie Manette, and safely transported from France to England. It would seem that they could now take up the threads of their lives in peace. As fate would have it, however, the two are summoned to the Old Bailey to testify against a young Frenchman, Charles Darnay, falsely accused of treason. Strangely enough, Darnay bears an uncanny resemblance to another man in the courtroom: Sydney Carton, a dissolute barrister. It is a coincidence that saves Darnay from certain doom more than once, as the two men's fates become intertwined with that of the Revolution. And there is Madame Defarge, a female revolutionary who has an implacable grudge against the aristocratic Evremonde dynasty and who knits as she watches the beheadings. The storming of the Bastille, the death carts with their doomed human cargo, the swift drop of the blade of La Guillotine -- this is the French Revolution that Charles Dickens vividly captures.Text Difficulty 9 - Text Difficulty 12Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 414805 KB).- Subjects: Electronic books.; Young Adult Fiction.; Classic Literature.;
- © 2011., Blackstone Publishing,
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