出版社: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
出版年: 1984
页数: 314
定价: USD 12.95
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9780151660384
1984的创作者
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乔治·奥威尔 作者
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George Orwell (1903-1950) was born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903 in Motihari, Bengal, India. His father, Richard Walmesley Blair was a civil servant for the British government. In 1904 Orwell moved with his mother and sister to England where he remained until 1922. He began to write at an early age, and was even published in college periodicals, but he did not enjoy school. Orwell ...
George Orwell (1903-1950) was born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903 in Motihari, Bengal, India. His father, Richard Walmesley Blair was a civil servant for the British government. In 1904 Orwell moved with his mother and sister to England where he remained until 1922. He began to write at an early age, and was even published in college periodicals, but he did not enjoy school. Orwell wrote about his unfavorable prep-school experiences in the essay Such Such were the Joys (1968).
Orwell failed to win a university scholarship and without the opportunity to continue his education he went to Bruma and served in the administration of the Indian Imperial Police from 1922 to 1927 when he resigned in part due to his growing dislike of British imperialism, a dislike he vocalized in his essays Shooting an Elephant (1950), and A Hanging (1931).
When Orwell returned to Europe he was in poor financial condition and worked low paying jobs in France and England. Finally, in 1928, he decided to become a professional writer. Starting in 1930 Orwell became a regular contributor to the New Adelphi, and in 1933 he assumed the name "George Orwell" by which he would become famous. For his first novel he used his recent experience with poverty as inspiration and wrote Down and Out in Paris and London (1933). While teaching in a private school he published his second major work, Burmese Days (1934). Two years later Orwell married Eileen O'Shaugnessy.
During the1930s Orwell had adopted the views of a socialist and traveled to Spain to report on their civil war. He took the side of the United Workers Marxist Party militia and fought alongside them, which earned him a wound in the neck. It was this war that made him hate communism in favor of the English brand of socialism. Orwell wrote a book on Spain, Homage to Catalonia, which was published in 1938.
During the second World War Orwell served as a sergeant in the Home Guard and also worked as a journalist for the BBC, Observer and Tribune, where he was literary editor from 1943 to 1945. It was toward the end of the war that he wrote Animal Farm, and when it was over he moved to Scotland.
It was Animal Farm that made finally Orwell prosperous. His other world wide success was Nineteen Eighty-Four, which Orwell said was written "to alter other people's idea of the kind of society they should strive after." Sadly Orwell never lived to see how successful it would become.
Eileen O'Shaugnessy, Orwell's wife died in 1945 and in 1949 he remarried to a woman named Sonia Browell. Orwell's second marriage was short-lived however, as he died from tuberculosis in London on January 21, 1950.
0 有用 书生拍案 2017-10-10 12:45:28
等我状态好时,猛喝杯咖啡写一篇评论。
0 有用 namik_ercan 2012-08-23 01:30:10
原諒我以前選擇書籍閱讀時疏忽吧,到今天我才讀完喬治·奧威爾的《1984》,這本反烏托邦代表作塑造了思想警察無孔不入的大洋邦,在前半部份我一度以為主角能聯合仍未痲痹的大眾對抗老大哥,但主角徹底屈服的結局更令人絕望,那句“老大哥在看著你”彷如籠罩不散的陰魂,從書裡撲進現實,4顆星
1 有用 汐兮 2017-03-28 08:49:53
War is peace, Freedom is slavery, Ignorance is strength.『big brother is watching you』
0 有用 yuwu 2020-02-10 15:18:30
三部曲中最好的一本。不仅有秩序,更有恐惧。
0 有用 珊珊 2018-11-28 17:57:32
每隔一段时间就要再读一读,眼前的世界会不会更明朗?
0 有用 晚晚 2022-04-23 15:16:22
《寻找活着的一九八四》
0 有用 çhamillion 2021-05-09 16:33:27
写法真的很没劲,看看摘录领会一下精华即可。
0 有用 JUN 2020-11-06 14:21:53
名不符实
0 有用 thisworld2night 2020-08-24 05:10:17
失去语言的人类还会是人类吗
0 有用 dave李 2020-06-12 08:03:17
The wildest political fantasy of totalitarian, yet you have to sing high praise for George's clear understanding of the society and power. In the end, there were no thoughts, no humanity, no hope.