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Summary: En un mundo donde la guerra es la paz, la libertad es la esclavitud y la ignorancia es la fuerza, el Hermano Mayor tiene ojos por todas partes. Las vidas de los ciudadanos están vigiladas y cada decisión se analiza al milímetro. Winston Smith, encargado de reescribir la historia para el gobierno, no puede escapar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH ORWHuxley, Aldous
Summary: Towering classic of dystopian satire, BRAVE NEW WORLD is a brilliant and terrifying vision of a soulless society--and of one man who discovers the human costs of mindless conformity. Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members, shaped by genetic engineering and behavioral conditioning, are productive and content in roles they have been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Everyman's Library 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF HUXBradbury, Ray
Summary: Fireman Guy Montag is a fireman whose job it is to start fires. And he loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn, along with the houses in which they were hidden. Then he meets a seventeen-year old girl who tells him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who tells him of a future where people can think. And Guy Montag knows what he has to do ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1991
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SF BRABradbury, Ray
Summary: In Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires but start them--to burn books. It's a time when trivial information is valued and true knowledge perceived as dangerous and subversive. Guy Montag is a fireman with a wife who's goading him to work harder so they could afford another television set. When Montag befriends their neighbor Clarisse, whose love for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRAOrwell, George
Summary: "When the animals at Manor Farm revolt against their master, Mr. Jones, their goal is to take over the farm and establish an ideal community based on hard work, honesty, and the equality of all animals. Guided by the memory of Old Major's utopian vision and the seven commandments, Animal Farm, as the animals have renamed it, briefly fulfills the ideal."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1987
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ORWOrwell, George
Summary: Orwell's world famous satire on dictatorship told through a story about the happenings of an english country farm and the animal inhabitants who find it their duty to rebel against the sometimes cruel owner and prove themselves every bit mankind's intellectual equal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD Fiction Orwell 1987Orwell, George.
Summary: A single man's determined battle against Big Brother and the forces of totalitarianism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2002
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Summary: London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. Under the ideology of IngSoc and the rule of the Party and its leader Big Brother, Julia is a model citizen - cheerfully cynical, believing in nothing and caring not at all about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWOrwell, George
Summary: All animals are equals but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is the account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones's Manor Farm into Animal Farm, a wholly democratic society built on the credo that all animals are created equal. Out of their cleverness, the pigs Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2003
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Summary: George Orwell's famous satire of the Soviet Union, in which "all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others." A satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1990
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Summary: A New England newspaper editor fights to destroy the fascist dictatorship established by President Berzelius Windrip in this work that prophesies the coming of totalitarianism in the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Signet Classics 2005