The Man in the High Castle & Nineteen Eighty-Four - Philip K. Dick, George Orwell

Written by Philip K. Dick, George Orwell
Read by Tom Weiner, Samuel West
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

The Man in the High Castle: Tom Weiner

Fifteen years after an alternative ending to World War II, the victorious Axis Powers, primarily, Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany, rule over the former United States, as well as daily life under the resulting totalitarian rule

It’s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war and is now occupied.

Nineteen Eighty-Four: Samuel West

Among the texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real.

Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell’s nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff’s attempt to find individuality.

The brilliance of the novel is Orwell’s prescience of modern life; the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language,and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell.

Unabridged
Duration: Tom Weiner, Samuel West
Bitrate: 64kbps