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.
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...
Classic. Nifty rhythm. "Almighty" expectation. A long struggle not to be laughed at, even when poised in ethical dilemmas.
评分George Orwell (還有Russel)的文章,用詞不過大學四級,從不偏好長難句; 行文流暢,即便讀者閱讀水平有限,也幾乎不會磕磕碰碰,稍具閱讀能力,讀來極為順滑,好似舌尖上的豆腐。
评分超好看! 就是我一直不懂為何其中這麼挫的一篇能做標題,還能被選到我們World Literature課本裏...
评分He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
评分觀其散文時而如說教般嚴謹時而思維脫兔般跳躍形成的風趣橫生,相比較評論狄更斯緬甸的那幾篇再加上迴憶往昔纔是他書裏最好的作品
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