书名：Nineteen Eighty-Four  1984 
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1090
作者：George Orwell乔治·奥威尔
出版社名称：Penguin Classics
出版时间：2004
语种： 英文
ISBN：9780141187761
商品尺寸：13 x 2.3 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：356（以实物为准）

Nineteen Eighty-Four《1984》中的名言佳句：
“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past”
“In a time of universal deceit— telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
Nineteen Eighty-Four《1984》是英国作家乔治·奥威尔于1949年出版的政治小说，与英国作家赫胥黎的Brave New World《美丽新世界》，以及俄国作家扎米亚京的We《我们》并称为“反乌托邦三部曲”。 这部小说自出版至今已被译成65种语言，全球总销量逾5000万册，被誉为20世纪影响深远的文学经典之一；入选美国《时代周刊》“很好的100本英文小说”、英国《卫报》“人生必读的100本”、兰登书屋“100本20世纪非常好英语小说”，并被多个国家列为中学必读书目。此外，日本著名作家村上春树更是以《1Q84》向该书致敬，英国当代著名作家安东尼·伯吉斯（《发条橙》作者）称“多一个人看奥威尔，就多了一份自由的保障”！足见《1984》的影响之大，非常值得一读！本书适合中学及以上的外国文学爱好者或英语学习者阅读收藏。
推荐理由：
1.奥威尔传世之作，非常杰出的政治寓言小说，思想深刻，钱钟书、王小波鼎力推荐；
2.阅读难度适中，新词量不是很大，英语用词描述生动；
3.小说中创造的英语词汇如newspeak、doublethink、Big Brother等已被收进英文词典，某些术语和由作者姓氏衍生的词汇已成为讨论隐私和国家安全问题时的常用语，非常适合英语学习者研读；
4. 英国原版，内容无删节并由著名作家Thomas Pynchon作序，印刷清晰，纸质优良。
With an Introduction byThomas Pynchon and A Note on theText byPeter Davison
Review
“The book of the twentieth century… haunts us with an ever-darker relevance.”—Independent
“His finalmasterpiece… enthralling and indispensable for understanding modern history” — Timothy Garton Ash,New York Review of Books
“It is a volley against the authoritarian in every personality, a polemic against every orthodoxy, an anarchistic blast against every unquestioning conformist . . . Nineteen Eighty-Four is a great novel and a great tract because of the clarity of its call, and it will endure because its message is a permanent one: erroneous thought is the stuff of freedom.” —Ben Pimlott
“Orwell remains the most indispensable English writer of his period”. —John Gross in theObserver
“A masterpiece of political speculation… Its harsh style creates as authentic a picture of a state turned by men themselves into hell as the lyrical passages of Animal Farm give a picture of a natural, pastoral and egalitarian Utopia. Both are creations of a great writer.” —Bernard Crick

Nineteen Eighty-Four《1984》描写了未来社会即1984年大洋国一个普通人的日常生活。在大洋国，权力高度集中在“党”英社的手中，到处张贴着党的领袖老大哥的画像，几乎到处都安有电屏幕，思想警察神出鬼没，人们主要指党员，无时无刻不在被监视、被监听，连自由地思想都是一种罪。主人公温斯顿在真理部从事篡改历史的工作，他对所处的社会和老大哥渐渐地产生了怀疑，在与另一名党员朱丽亚秘密恋爱后，逐渐成为思想犯，被思想警察逮捕……
Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, 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.

George Orwell乔治•奥威尔，英国伟大的人道主义作家、新闻记者和社会评论家，著名的英语文体家。1903年出生于英属印度，1907年举家迁回英国，进入伊顿公学。后到缅甸任警察。20世纪30年代，他参加西班牙内战，回国后被划入左派，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。1945年，出版了著名的小说Animal Farm《动物庄园》。1949年，代表作Nineteen Eighty-Four《1984》问世。1950年，奥威尔死于困扰其数年的肺病，年仅47岁。
George Orwell (whose real name wasEric Arthur Blair )was born in 1903 in India and then went to Eton when his family moved back to England. From 1922 to 1927 he served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma,an experience that inspired his first novel, Burmese Days (1934). Helived in Paris before returning to England, andDown and Out in Paris and London waspublished in 1936. After writingThe Road to Wigan Pier andHomage to Catalonia ( hishis account of fighting for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War).Orwell 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 Orwell served in the Home Guard and worked for the BBC. Hispolitical allegory, Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. George Orwell was taken seriously ill in the winter of 1948-9 and died in London in 1950.
Peter Davison is Research Professor of English atDe Montfort University, Leicester. He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1926 and studied for a London External BA (1954) by correspondence course. He edited an Elizabethan text for a London MA (1957) and then taught ay Sydney University, where he gained a Ph.D. He was awarded a D.Litt and an Hon. D. Arts byDe Montfort University in 1999. He was written and edited fifteen books as well as the facsimile edition of the manuscript ofNineteen Eighty-Four and the twenty volumes ofOrwell’s Complete Works (with Ian Angus and Sheila Davison). He is a past president of the Bibliographical Society, whose journal he edited for twelve years. He was made an OBE in 1999 for services to literature. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Bibliographical Society in 2003 and appointed a Professor Emeritus of Glynd�1�70�1�77r University in 2009.
Thomas Pynchon is the author of V, The crying lot of 49, Cravity’s Rainbow,Vineland,Mason&Dixon and Against the Day.