1984

George Orwell (1903-1950) was born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903 in Motihari, Bengal, India. His father, Richard Walmesley Blair was a civil servant for the British government. In 1904 Orwell moved with his mother and sister to England where he remained until 1922. He began to write at an early age, and was even published in college periodicals, but he did not enjoy school. Orwell wrote about his unfavorable prep-school experiences in the essay Such Such were the Joys (1968).Orwell failed to win a university scholarship and without the opportunity to continue his education he went to Bruma and served in the administration of the Indian Imperial Police from 1922 to 1927 when he resigned in part due to his growing dislike of British imperialism, a dislike he vocalized in his essays Shooting an Elephant (1950), and A Hanging (1931).When Orwell returned to Europe he was in poor financial condition and worked low paying jobs in France and England. Finally, in 1928, he decided to become a professional writer. Starting in 1930 Orwell became a regular contributor to the New Adelphi, and in 1933 he assumed the name "George Orwell" by which he would become famous. For his first novel he used his recent experience with poverty as inspiration and wrote Down and Out in Paris and London (1933). While teaching in a private school he published his second major work, Burmese Days (1934). Two years later Orwell married Eileen O'Shaugnessy.During the1930s Orwell had adopted the views of a socialist and traveled to Spain to report on their civil war. He took the side of the United Workers Marxist Party militia and fought alongside them, which earned him a wound in the neck. It was this war that made him hate communism in favor of the English brand of socialism. Orwell wrote a book on Spain, Homage to Catalonia, which was published in 1938.During the second World War Orwell served as a sergeant in the Home Guard and also worked as a journalist for the BBC, Observer and Tribune, where he was literary editor from 1943 to 1945. It was toward the end of the war that he wrote Animal Farm, and when it was over he moved to Scotland.It was Animal Farm that made finally Orwell prosperous. His other world wide success was Nineteen Eighty-Four, which Orwell said was written "to alter other people's idea of the kind of society they should strive after." Sadly Orwell never lived to see how successful it would become.Eileen O'Shaugnessy, Orwell's wife died in 1945 and in 1949 he remarried to a woman named Sonia Browell. Orwell's second marriage was short-lived however, as he died from tuberculosis in London on January 21, 1950.

出版者:Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

作者:[英] 乔治·奥威尔

页数:314

出版时间:1984

价格:USD 12.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780151660384

图书标签:1984反乌托邦GeorgeOrwell小说深刻政治哲学历史

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奥威尔在书中得出了一个必将到来的悲观结论，我始终不能明白，为什么多数人总是对此视而不见。 我对于1984的看法是：这是一部极为悲观的作品，那种绝望的悲观如同饥饿，寒冷或者肉体的痛楚，你以为用冷漠可以咬牙坚持过去，但结果只是一再证明自己的软弱无力。 造就那种悲观...  

奥威尔在书中得出了一个必将到来的悲观结论，我始终不能明白，为什么多数人总是对此视而不见。 我对于1984的看法是：这是一部极为悲观的作品，那种绝望的悲观如同饥饿，寒冷或者肉体的痛楚，你以为用冷漠可以咬牙坚持过去，但结果只是一再证明自己的软弱无力。 造就那种悲观...  

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...  

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