Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice, an intense opposition to totalitarianism, a passion for clarity in language and a belief in democratic socialism.
Considered perhaps the twentieth century's best chronicler of English culture, Orwell wrote fiction, polemical journalism, literary criticism and poetry. He is best known for the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (published in 1949) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945)—they have together sold more copies than any two books by any other twentieth-century author. His 1938 book Homage to Catalonia, an account of his experiences as a volunteer on the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War, together with numerous essays on politics, literature, language and culture, are widely acclaimed.
Orwell's influence on contemporary culture, popular and political, continues decades after his death. Several of his neologisms, along with the term "Orwellian"—now a byword for any totalitarian or manipulative social phenomenon opposed to a free society—have entered the vernacular.
First published in 1949, George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" has lost none of the impact with which it first hit readers. Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent - even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101.
自从一九九零年夏天来美,身不由己一直有国难归。去年十月,有友人约我从华盛顿回北京去讲学,我一口就答应了。 八年中,多少至亲好友一个接一个谢世了。远一些的不说,前年六月,董乐山从北京寄来《汪曾祺悄然归去》的剪报。曾祺和我相知六十多年,九零年夏我离京前曾到他家...
評分我被它彻底击垮了,彻底击垮了。 从书的第三部份,与奥勃良的漫长的对话开始无法控制眼泪不断掉下来流出来涌出来无法克制想要颤抖无法克制想要揪住一个人告诉他我有多么恐惧多么害怕多么无助多么惭愧。 如果伪善尚且是一种对善的肯定,那么当奥勃良告诉你权力就是为了权力,殴...
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20th Anniversary ed
评分20th Anniversary ed
评分war is rulers’ peace, ignorance is rulers’ strength
评分畢業論文寫這個作死。封麵好看。
评分看完瞭。。。為什麼結局是這樣。。。
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