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著者簡介
George Orwell
Son of an English administrator stationed in India (in the "Opium Department"), Orwell (born Eric Blair) returned to Henley-on-Thames in England with his mother when he was 2. He eventually attended Eton, becoming a somewhat rebellious boy who questioned his family's middle-class values. From 1921 to 1927, he served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, a job he loathed, and after he resigned he devoted himself to learning to write, first in England, then in Paris, where he began to publish articles on social issues under the pen name of George Orwell. All his life, Orwell was aware of and outraged by poverty and unemployment and the inequities of the oppressive English class system. Impoverished himself, he worked in the kitchen of a Paris hotel, out of which came his memoir, DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON. He wrote several novels during this period--the first to be published was A CLERGYMAN'S DAUGHTER in 1935--as well as his classic study of Yorkshire coal miners, THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER (1937). (Later in life, Orwell commented, "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism...") Orwell fought with the antifascists in the Spanish Civil War, detailing his experiences in HOMAGE TO CATALONIA (1938), and during World War II he wrote for the BBC. He is credited with coining the expression "cold war." Orwell's scathing political satire, ANIMAL FARM, was published after the war, in 1945. His first wife also died that year, and he and his son moved to the island of Jura off the Scottish coast, where Orwell wrote his most famous and influential novel, 1984, which was published in 1949. He remarried shortly after, but in 1950 he died of the tuberculosis that had long plagued him.
圖書目錄
讀後感
上海译文出版的奥威尔作品中，有两本属于随笔集性质，即本书《我为什么要写作》和《英国式谋杀的衰落》。对于是否要阅读这两本书，我的心情一直比较矛盾。一方面，奥威尔是我最为推崇和欣赏的作家之一，读他的作品难道不是理所当然的吗？可另一方面，我又对自己说，他的两本最...
評分 評分2008-10-29 14:13:54 乔治·奥威尔在1931年8月发表了一篇名为《绞刑》的纪实文章，记述了他在缅甸时所见到和参与的一次绞刑。这篇文章不动声色地记述了处死一个囚犯的全过程，在我看来，代表着奥威尔在他的叙述风格中的最高成就。 死囚是个印度人，“身材矮小，...
評分这本是09年读的最用心的一本书，边读边划，摘抄竟做了一个本子，当然那个本子是薄了点。刚才看有人说，只看后面的英文，买这本真是捡了个大便宜，的确如此的。Orwell的1984最初读的中文版，英文版的电子版本下了一直没看，若不是仔细读了这本，肯定错过了Orwell。 ...
評分这本书，是关于奥威尔的生平一部分记录。 在读的时候，有种心痛感。以前并不知道，奥威尔的生活是这样的，正如他的书一样，让人有种不舒服感。但是这种不舒服，对于奥威尔这个人，是出于热爱，想不到他曾经有这样的经历，对于《动物庄园》和《1984》那两本书，则是因为揭示真...
用戶評價
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评分I didn't finished it though. it still a fantastic book
评分It helps you understand Orwell better. I was surprised to know that he was a socialist once. His Politics and the English Language is a must-read if you're interested in political writing.
评分honest experience
评分When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art’. I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. But I could not do the work of writing a book, or even a long magazine article, if it were not also an aesthetic experience.
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