"Big Brother is Watching You" Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (story reading)

The dystopia of dystopias. It was written in 1948 and the inversion of the last two digits to make 1984 is not a coincidence. Winston, the hero's name, was unusual in those days but he is exactly the right age to have been named after the British Prime Minister.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

This is what Orwell said:
"My recent novel [Nineteen Eighty-Four] is NOT intended as an attack on Socialism or on the British Labour Party (of which I am a supporter), but as a show-up of the perversions . . . which have already been partly realized in Communism and Fascism. . . . The scene of the book is laid in Britain in order to emphasize that the English-speaking races are not innately better than anyone else, and that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere."

You can read the rest of the novel here:
http://orwell.ru/library/novels/1984/english/en_p_1

The Big Brother poster is by Frederic Guimont and it came from this website:
http://www.the-fifth-hope.org/art/
(it's the only one I could find with a moustache)

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[MrSunlander]

I'm sorry, who is the narrator? 

[SpokenVerse]

@MrSunlander Me, Tom O'Bedlam. I read everything in this SpokenVerse channel. I hope you'll listen ot a few more readings.

[Temorablue]

This is great. Your channel is the best on youtube. Thank you

[scifiwritir]

Wow, he's such a good writer. When I read this back in the day as a kid I was too busy thinking about his depiction of totalitarianism to see how well-written it is.

[MrSunlander]

@SpokenVerse Thank you. I enjoyed your reading.....

[mistacramer]

Amazing reading of a dark section of a great novel!

[bluegrassbaby86]

Creepy how the place where they torture people is called the Ministry of Love.

Is it 1984 or Nineteen Eighty-four?

[21golden007]

@ScotlandSerenity or maybe i already is. not in total but in moderation.

War is peace

freedom is slavery

ignorance is strength

sounds like current times to me.

[ZechsMerquise73]

@ScotlandSerenity Or maybe it will always be the same. Maybe its always been just the way it is right now, in everything.

[ScotlandSerenity]

powerful story narrated expertly one day the future may be like this

[SpokenVerse]

@ZechsMerquise73 My favourite book by Orwell was "Down and Out in Paris and London" - which was about his personal experiences, exactly as the title says.

There's another about a young man who gives up a literary career to work in advertising because of the financial burden of wife and family - it's called "Keep the Aspidistra Flying".

[ZechsMerquise73]

I believe saying "totalitarianism" on YouTube automatically puts your comment into an evaluation queue. That's ironic.