George Orwell (whose real name was Eric 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, and experience that inspired his first novel, Burmese Days (1934). He lived in Paris before returning to England, and Down and Out in Paris and London was published in 1936. After writing The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia (his account of fighting for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War), Orwell was admitted to a sanatorium in 1938 and from then on was never fully fit. He spent six months in Morocco where he wrote Coming Up for Air. During the Second World War Orwell served in the Home Guard and worked for the BBC. His political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945 and it was this novel, together with Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him into worldwide fame. George Orwell was taken seriously ill in the winter of 1948-1949 and died in London in 1950.
A collection of eighteen essays by the author of Nineteen Eighty Four and Animal Farm, etc. these represent the last of his finished work. There is excellent reading here, whether it be the title piece on the English colonial attitude, or his thoughts on books, poetry, cigarettes, a report on a hanging and a death, reflections on Gandhi, a toad, English murder, and other assorted topics, and in the field of the essay this provides fine style as well as stimulating thinking. For the selective reader as well as his established followers. (Kirkus Reviews) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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As a young, inexperienced soldier stationed in India to help protect the Queen’s interests, George really spent his days in a dilemma. For one thing, he is an European soldier so he had the responsibility to execute the Queen’s orders and to spare no e...
評分As a young, inexperienced soldier stationed in India to help protect the Queen’s interests, George really spent his days in a dilemma. For one thing, he is an European soldier so he had the responsibility to execute the Queen’s orders and to spare no e...
評分As a young, inexperienced soldier stationed in India to help protect the Queen’s interests, George really spent his days in a dilemma. For one thing, he is an European soldier so he had the responsibility to execute the Queen’s orders and to spare no e...
評分As a young, inexperienced soldier stationed in India to help protect the Queen’s interests, George really spent his days in a dilemma. For one thing, he is an European soldier so he had the responsibility to execute the Queen’s orders and to spare no e...
評分As a young, inexperienced soldier stationed in India to help protect the Queen’s interests, George really spent his days in a dilemma. For one thing, he is an European soldier so he had the responsibility to execute the Queen’s orders and to spare no e...
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男神的精闢散文集 其實越來越覺得他好像魯迅啊怎麼辦 讀Such Such were the Joy的時候不時想到三味書屋ojz 這樣簡單易懂細細品味卻極為有道理的文字隻有他一人能寫齣來!
評分他的essay絕對不必小說遜色
評分Orwell is my spiritual mentor!
評分永恒的冷峻良知和最樸素的誠摯。道義的光芒不是愈邈遠愈可以瞻仰,而是他可以是我們身邊的每一個人,一樣地為自己在某個時刻的瑟縮逡巡所反悔。
評分寫得太好瞭
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