This groundbreaking volume, never before published in the United States, at last introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books throughout his career, the eleven surviving diaries collected here record Orwell's youthful travels among miners and itinerant laborers, the fearsome rise of totalitarianism, the horrific drama of World War II, and the feverish composition of his great masterpieces Animal Farm and 1984 (which have now sold more copies than any two books by any other twentieth-century author). Personal entries cover the tragic death of his first wife and Orwell's own decline as he battled tuberculosis. Exhibiting great brilliance of prose and composition, these treasured dispatches, edited by the world's leading Orwell scholar, exhibit "the seeds of famous passages to come" (New Statesman) and amount to a volume as penetrating as the autobiography he would never write.
喬治•奧威爾(1903—1950),英國偉大的人道主義作傢、新聞記者和社會評論傢,傳世之作《一九八四》、《動物農場》膾炙人口,曆久彌新,被譽為“一代英國人的冷峻良心”。
編者英國戲劇、傳記學者,奧威爾研究專傢彼得•戴維森(Peter Davison)。
文/嚴傑夫 在許多人看來,奧威爾的一生足以被稱為“悲劇”。在傢庭背景上,他齣生於一個“沒有錢的中産階級傢庭”;在事業上,奧威爾的寫作生涯並不順利,直到晚年,他的作品纔獲得真正的認可,而無論是在緬甸的五年公務員生涯,還是二戰時在BBC短暫的播音歲月,也都很難稱得...
評分記得第一次讀《1984》和《動物農莊》的時候,我就興衝衝跑去搜喬治·奧威爾的資料,想看看他是什麼時候被槍斃的。 當時我想的是,如果沒有在蘇聯生活的經曆或者沒有經曆過“文革”時期的中國,隻憑想象,斷然寫不齣如此一針見血的小說。而一旦有這種生活經曆,寫齣這種對“趙傢...
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