乔治·奥威尔作品集：《1984》 Nineteen Eighty-Four/《动物庄园》Animal Farm乔治·奥威尔 George Orwell 企鹅经典系列

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Publisher : Penguin Classics; 1st edition (7 Jun. 2018)

Author: George Orwell 

Language : English

Paperback : 428 pages

Dimensions : 13 x 2.6 x 19.8 cm

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书籍简介/Book Description

9780241341650《1984》Nineteen Eighty-Four

《一九八四》（Nineteen Eighty-Four）是英国左翼作家乔治·奥威尔于1949年出版的长篇政治小说。

在这部作品中奥威尔刻画了一个令人感到窒息的恐怖世界，在假想的未来社会中，独裁者以追逐权力为目标，人性被强权彻底扼杀，自由被彻底剥夺，思想受到严酷钳制，人民的生活陷入了极度贫困，下层人民的人生变成了单调乏味的循环。

这部小说与英国作家赫胥黎著作的《美丽新世界》，以及俄国作家扎米亚京著作的《我们》并称反乌托邦的三部代表作。这部小说已经被翻译成62种语言，全球销量超过3000万册，是20世纪影响力深远的英语小说之一。2015年11月，该作被评为极具影响力的20本学术书之一。

'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'

Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia, but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal.

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9780241341667《动物庄园》Animal Farm

该作讲述农场的一群动物成功地进行了一场“革命”，将压榨他们的人类东家赶出农场，建立起一个平等的动物社会。然而，动物领袖，那些聪明的猪们却篡夺了革命的果实，成为比人类东家更加独裁和极权的统治者。

该作被公认为反乌托邦政治讽喻寓言。

'All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others'

When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless élite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another.

The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.

作者简介/Author

乔治·奥威尔（George Orwell，1903年6月25日－1950年1月21日），英国著名小说家、记者和社会评论家。

他的代表作《动物庄园》和《1984》是反极权主义的经典名著，其中《1984》是20世纪影响深远的英语小说之一。

1903年生于英国殖民地的印度，童年耳闻目睹了殖民者与被殖民者之间尖锐的冲突。与绝大多数英国孩子不同，他的同情倾向悲惨的印度人民一边。少年时代，奥威尔受教育于著名的伊顿公学。后来被派到缅甸任警察，他却站在了苦役犯的一边。20世纪30年代，他参加西班牙内战，因属托洛茨基派系（第四国际）而遭排挤，回国后却又因被划入左派，不得不流亡法国。二战中，他在英国广播公司（BBC）从事反法西斯宣传工作。1950年，死于困扰其数年的肺病，年仅47岁。乔治·奥威尔一生短暂，但其以敏锐的洞察力和犀利的文笔审视和记录着他所生活的那个时代，做出了许多超越时代的预言，被称为 “一代人的冷峻良知”。

其代表作有《动物庄园》和《1984》。

George Orwell is one of England's most famous writers and social commentators. Among his works are the classic political satire Animal Farm and the dystopian nightmare vision Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell was also a prolific essayist, and it is for these works that he was perhaps best known during his lifetime. They include Why I Write and Politics and the English Language. His writing is at once insightful, poignant and entertaining, and continues to be read widely all over the world.

Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in 1903 in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. The family moved to England in 1907 and in 1917 Orwell entered Eton, where he contributed regularly to the various college magazines. From 1922 to 1927 he served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, an experience that inspired his first novel, Burmese Days (1934). Several years of poverty followed. He lived in Paris for two years before returning to England, where he worked successively as a private tutor, schoolteacher and bookshop assistant, and contributed reviews and articles to a number of periodicals. Down and Out in Paris and London was published in 1933. In 1936 he was commissioned by Victor Gollancz to visit areas of mass unemployment in Lancashire and Yorkshire, and The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) is a powerful description of the poverty he saw there.

At the end of 1936 Orwell went to Spain to fight for the Republicans and was wounded. Homage to Catalonia is his account of the civil war. He was admitted to a sanatorium in 1938 and from then on was never fully fit. He spent six months in Morocco and there wrote Coming Up for Air. During the Second World War he served in the Home Guard and worked for the BBC Eastern Service from 1941 to 1943. As literary editor of the Tribune he contributed a regular page of political and literary commentary, and he also wrote for the Observer and later for the Manchester Evening News. His unique political allegory, Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame.

It was around this time that Orwell's unique political allegory Animal Farm (1945) was published. The novel is recognised as a classic of modern political satire and is simultaneously an engaging story and convincing allegory. It was this novel, together with Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which finally brought him world-wide fame. Nineteen Eighty-Four's ominous depiction of a repressive, totalitarian regime shocked contemporary readers, but ensures that the book remains perhaps the preeminent dystopian novel of modern literature.

Orwell's fiercely moral writing has consistently struck a chord with each passing generation. The intense honesty and insight of his essays and non-fiction made Orwell one of the foremost social commentators of his age. Added to this, his ability to construct elaborately imaginative fictional worlds, which he imbued with this acute sense of morality, has undoubtedly assured his contemporary and future relevance.