Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.
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Animal Farm 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
(节选自李零发表于2008年8月号《读书》的书评) 我们先介绍人类: 一)琼斯先生(Mr. Jones),庄园农场的场主。他整天喝酒,醉醺醺,对手下的工人疏于管理。他们光挤奶,不喂草,引起母牛闹事。其他动物群起响应,把琼斯赶走。琼斯流亡在外,住在威灵顿(...
评分动物 老少校(Old Major)——猪,提出了动物主义的思想,影射马克思和列宁 雪球(Snowball)——猪,动物庄园革命的领导者之一,后被驱逐并宣布为革命的敌人,影射托洛茨基 拿破仑(Napoleon)——猪,动物庄园革命的领导者之一,后来成为庄园的领袖,影射斯大林 ...
评分1.母牛唱的是哞哞的低音声部,狗的哀叫适用于长腔,羊的咩咩、马的嘶鸣、鸭的呷呷叫,统统各得其所。 2.人的区别性标志是手,人正是用它来干一切坏事的。 3.只有一种人是好的,那就是死人。 4.于是,《英格兰生灵》再也听不见了。诗人小不点儿谱写了另一首歌取而代之,它的...
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Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Boxer死的时候我看哭了。
评分sigh...看了心里不好受
评分在返程的机上读完最后三个chapters,印象最深的还是读中文版时特意去看了原文的那句all animals are equal,but some animals are more equal than others;“四条腿好,两条腿坏”的两个“凡是”,之于我,很可乐。
评分入木三分的讽刺。
评分以动物喻人,有趣而一针见血的讽刺。短小精湛,耐人寻味。
Animal Farm 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书