George Orwell
Son of an English administrator stationed in India (in the "Opium Department"), Orwell (born Eric Blair) returned to Henley-on-Thames in England with his mother when he was 2. He eventually attended Eton, becoming a somewhat rebellious boy who questioned his family's middle-class values. From 1921 to 1927, he served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, a job he loathed, and after he resigned he devoted himself to learning to write, first in England, then in Paris, where he began to publish articles on social issues under the pen name of George Orwell. All his life, Orwell was aware of and outraged by poverty and unemployment and the inequities of the oppressive English class system. Impoverished himself, he worked in the kitchen of a Paris hotel, out of which came his memoir, DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON. He wrote several novels during this period--the first to be published was A CLERGYMAN'S DAUGHTER in 1935--as well as his classic study of Yorkshire coal miners, THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER (1937). (Later in life, Orwell commented, "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism...") Orwell fought with the antifascists in the Spanish Civil War, detailing his experiences in HOMAGE TO CATALONIA (1938), and during World War II he wrote for the BBC. He is credited with coining the expression "cold war." Orwell's scathing political satire, ANIMAL FARM, was published after the war, in 1945. His first wife also died that year, and he and his son moved to the island of Jura off the Scottish coast, where Orwell wrote his most famous and influential novel, 1984, which was published in 1949. He remarried shortly after, but in 1950 he died of the tuberculosis that had long plagued him.
发表于2024-05-03
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一个我一直都知道的是奥威尔强烈反对极权主义,但我一个一直不清楚的是奥威尔很推崇社会主义 两点:1,追求民主自由的同时,不应忘记社会公正。
评分近年来日渐闻名遐迩的乔治·奥威尔是个英年早逝者,同时既不是多产高产的作家,也不是以长篇著名的作家,但凡读过《1984》《动物农场》这样的妙书之后,对于喜欢在吃过鸡蛋之后探索下蛋鸡的好奇的读者来说,具有以文学为预言能力的乔治·奥威尔的写作及其写作方式自然就有很大...
评分奥威尔曾在遗嘱中表示不希望有人为他写作传记。据他自己说是因为一个人的一生从内部看总是一连串失败经历的组合体,不但让别人学习的地方不多,而且想起来都觉得丢人现眼。一个作家去世之前发表声明不希望后人作传的人不少,但那都是因为他们渗透到骨子里的傲慢觉得那些后人根...
评分一本董乐山先生译的奥威尔的随笔集(奥威尔称为散文,也就是英语国家通用的有别于小说诗歌的Essay),这里收集了近20篇奥威尔于不同时期发表在不同杂志上的随笔,反映了他的童年生活,工作经历,革命经历,以及并不太长的作为一个严肃作家的经历。 我觉得仅其中一篇《我为什...
评分这本是09年读的最用心的一本书,边读边划,摘抄竟做了一个本子,当然那个本子是薄了点。刚才看有人说,只看后面的英文,买这本真是捡了个大便宜,的确如此的。Orwell的1984最初读的中文版,英文版的电子版本下了一直没看,若不是仔细读了这本,肯定错过了Orwell。 ...
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一般,预期太高(?),通勤读物。文笔不坏,总的来说我不适合阅读散文(杂文?)。
评分The main part is actually the book of The Lion and The Unicorn, which IMO is the best book that reflects his political orientation. And the last essay is also in support of his political opinion in terms of writing. I do love his writing because he never uses complicated and exaggerating words.
评分honest experience
评分推荐。有空时候给条目添个目录好了。
评分I didn't finished it though. it still a fantastic book
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