基本信息
书名：The Essential Orwell Boxed Set 奥威尔 4本装
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1020-1170
作者：George Orwell乔治·奥威尔
出版社名称：Penguin Classics
出版时间：2011
语种：英文
ISBN：9780141198187
商品尺寸：12.9 x 7.1 x 20 cm
包装：盒装
页数：1080

编辑推荐
乔治·奥威尔，英国著名作家、记者、社会评论家，以创作政治讽喻小说闻名于世，被公认为是20世纪英国重要的文学家和思想家之一，是人类良知的代表者，被称为“一代人的冷峻良知”。有评论家如此说“多一个人看奥威尔，就多了一份自由的保障”，可见其对后人的影响之深。
推荐理由：
1.奥威尔重要作品集，除《动物庄园》和《1984》两部传世之作外，另收录了其处女作《巴黎伦敦落魄记》和优秀散文集《猎象记及其他散文》；
2.小说中创造的英语词汇如newspeak、doublethink、Big Brother等已被收进英文词典，某些术语和由作者姓氏衍生的词汇已成为讨论隐私和国家安全问题时的常用语，非常适合英语学习者研读；
3.奥威尔的写作风格一贯以批评为主，文字诚实、真诚、清晰、准确、简洁，自成一家，在英文写作方面非常值得借鉴；
4.企鹅经典系列，内容完整无删节，每本书都有著名作家做引言介绍，如MalcolmBradbury、Thomas Pynchon等，帮助读者深入理解内容。
George Orwell was perhaps the twentieth century’s best chronicler of English culture and one of our most significant political thinkers. In this covetable boxed set are collected together four of his essential works, including the seminal novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, Animal Farm, Down and Out in Paris and London and Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays.

内容简介
Animal Farm《动物庄园》，是一部政治寓言体小说，故事描述了一场“动物主义”革命的酝酿、兴起和蜕变；一个农庄（Manor Farm）的动物不堪人类主人的压迫，在猪的带领下起来反抗，赶走了农庄主（Mr.Jones），牲畜们实现了“当家作主”的愿望，农场更名为“动物庄园”，奉行“所有动物一律平等”；之后，两只处于领导地位的猪为了权力而互相倾轧，胜利者一方宣布另一方是叛徒、内奸。此后，获取了领导权的猪拥有了越来越大的权力，成为新的特权阶级；动物们稍有不满，便会招致血腥的清洗：农庄的理想被修正为“有的动物较之其他动物更为平等”，动物们又恢复到从前的悲惨状况。
“It is the history of a revolution that went wrong – and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine,” wrote Orwell for the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945. Orwell wrote the novel at the end of 1943, but it almost remained unpublished. Its savage attack on Stalin, at that time Britain’s Ally, led to the book being refused by publisher. Orwell’s simple, tragic fable, telling what happens when the animals drive out Mr Jones and attempt to run the farm themselves, has since become a world-famous classic.
Down and Out in Paris and London《巴黎伦敦落魄记》是英国作家乔治·奥威尔的首部长篇力作，是根据作者1927年至1931年间对流浪者的调查及亲身体验的真实经历写成，经过多次退稿，于1933年出版。出版后大获好评，长销不衰，也令奥威尔在文坛崭露头角。全书分为两部分，上半部叙述了一位英国文人在巴黎靠打零工度日，挣扎在生活底层的潦倒生活；下半部描述了这位文人从巴黎流落回伦敦，生活状况进一步恶化，沦为无业游民并到处颠沛流离的种种经历。
George Orwell’s vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute is a moving tour of the underworld of society.
Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, it documents “his first contact with poverty: sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort, working as a dishwasher in Paris , surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a star-gazing pavement artist and a starving Russian ex-army captain. Exposing a shocking, previously-hidden world to readers, Orwell gave a human face to the statistics of poverty for the first time. In doing so, he found his voice as a writer.
Nineteen Eighty-Four《1984》描写了未来社会即1984年大洋国一个普通人的日常生活。在大洋国，权力高度集中在“党”英社的手中，到处张贴着党的领袖老大哥的画像，几乎到处都安有电屏幕，思想警察神出鬼没，人们主要指党员，无时无刻不在被监视、被监听，连自由地思想都是一种罪。主人公温斯顿在真理部从事篡改历史的工作，他对所处的社会和老大哥渐渐地产生了怀疑，在与另一名党员朱丽亚秘密恋爱后，逐渐成为思想犯，被思想警察逮捕……
Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia, but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal.
Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays《猎象记及其他散文》
《猎象记》是乔治·奥威尔的一篇优秀散文。文章写于1936年，叙述了1926年在英属殖民地缅甸当殖民警察时一次射象的经历。作者以其非凡的手笔通过讲述作者射象时的矛盾心情触及到人类的心灵深处极其复杂的矛盾心理，表达了作者对帝国主义、对殖民统治的深恶痛绝和对殖民地人民的麻木不仁的无奈。
“Shooting an Elephant” is Orwell’s searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma; Killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd “solely to avoid looking a fool”. The other masterly essays in this collection include classics such as “My Country Right or Left”, “How the Poor Die” and “Such, Such were the Joys”, his memoir of the horrors of public school, as well as discussions of Shakespeare, sleeping rough, boys’ weeklies and a spirited defence of English cooking. Opinionated, uncompromising, provocative and hugely entertaining, all show Orwell’s unique ability to get to the heart of any subject.

作者简介
George Orwell乔治?奥威尔，英国伟大的人道主义作家、新闻记者和社会评论家，著名的英语文体家。1903年出生于英属印度，1907年举家迁回英国，进入伊顿公学。后到缅甸任警察。20世纪30年代，他参加西班牙内战，回国后被划入左派，不得不流亡法国。二战中，他在英国广播公司（BBC）从事反法西斯宣传工作。1945年，出版了著名的小说Animal Farm《动物庄园》。1949年，代表作Nineteen Eighty-Four《1984》问世。1950年，奥威尔死于困扰其数年的肺病，年仅47岁。
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, an 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 admitted to a sanatorium in 1938 and from then on was never fully fit. He spent six months in Morocco and there wrote Coming Up for Air. During the Second World War Orwell served in the Home Guard and worked for the BBC. Hispolitical allegory, Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. George Orwell was taken seriously ill in the winter of 1948-9 and died in London in 1950.

目录
Animal Farm动物庄园
Down and Out in Paris and London巴黎伦敦落魄记
Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984
Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays猎象记及其他散文

精彩书摘
Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes. With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring.
As soon as the light in the bedroom went out there was a stirring and a fluttering all through the farm buildings. Word had gone round during the day that old Major, the prize Middle White boar, had had a strange dream on the previous night and wished to communicate it to the other animals. It had been agreed that they should all meet in the big barn as soon as Mr. Jones was safely out of the way. Old Major (so he was always called, though the name under which he had been exhibited was Willingdon Beauty) was so highly regarded on the farm that everyone was quite ready to lose an hour’s sleep in order to hear what he had to say.
At one end of the big barn, on a sort of raised platform, Major was already ensconced on his bed of straw, under a lantern which hung from a beam. He was twelve years old and had lately grown rather stout, but he was still a majestic-looking pig, with a wise and benevolent appearance in spite of the fact that his tushes had never been cut. Before long the other animals began to arrive and make themselves comfortable after their different fashions. First came the three dogs, Bluebell, Jessie, and Pincher, and then the pigs, who settled down in the straw immediately in front of the platform. The hens perched themselves on the window-sills, the pigeons fluttered up to the rafters, the sheep and cows lay down behind the pigs and began to chew the cud. The two cart-horses, Boxer and Clover, came in together, walking very slowly and setting down their vast hairy hoofs with great care lest there should be some small animal concealed in the straw. Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal. Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together. A white stripe down his nose gave him a somewhat stupid appearance, and in fact he was not of first-rate intelligence, but he was universally respected for his steadiness of character and tremendous powers of work. After the horses came Muriel, the white goat, and Benjamin, the donkey. Benjamin was the oldest animal on the farm, and the worst tempered. He seldom talked, and when he did, it was usually to make some cynical remark–for instance, he would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies. Alone among the animals on the farm he never laughed. If asked why, he would say that he saw nothing to laugh at. Never 英文原版英文小说The Essential Orwell 1984 动物庄园奥威尔4本 电子书 下载 mobi epub pdf txt