奥威尔原名埃里克阿瑟布莱尔(Eric Arthur Blair),1903年生于印度。
1907年他举家迁回到英格兰。1917年,他进入伊顿公学。1921年后来到缅甸加入Indianimperial Police,1928年辞职。随后的日子里他贫病交加,此间他当过教师、书店店员,直到1940年,他成为New English Weekly 的小说评论员,他才有了稳定的收入养家糊口。1936年间,他访问了兰开夏郡和约克郡,1936年底,他来到西班牙参加西班牙内战,其间他受伤。二战期间(1940-1943),他为BBS Eastern Service工作,并在此间写了大量政治和文学评论。1945年起他成为Observer的战地记者和Machester Evening News的固定撰稿人。
1945年,他出版了《动物农场》,1949年出版了《1984》。奥威尔患有肺结核,于1950年死去。
发表于2024-11-25
Politics and the English Language 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. In our age there is no such thing...
评分Upon reviewing this essay a certain paragraph struck me. ...Many political words are similarly abused. The wordFascismhas now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’. The wordsdemocracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realist...
评分Upon reviewing this essay a certain paragraph struck me. ...Many political words are similarly abused. The wordFascismhas now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’. The wordsdemocracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realist...
评分Upon reviewing this essay a certain paragraph struck me. ...Many political words are similarly abused. The wordFascismhas now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’. The wordsdemocracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realist...
评分图书标签: 写作 乔治·奥威尔 English Politics 文学 Language 英文原版 学术
第一篇的嘲讽毫不留情,第二篇review犀利吐血…
评分"Words like romantic, plastic,values, human, dead, sentimental, natural, vitality, as used in art criticism, are strictly meaningless."
评分Let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way about.
评分一言以蔽之,"let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way about." 奥威尔总是这么正三观!!btw企鹅????的小书也太可爱啦 <33
评分大快人心 而且企鹅真的太会做生意了
Politics and the English Language 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书