基本信息
書名：The Essential Orwell Boxed Set 奧威爾 4本裝
難度：Lexile藍思閱讀指數1020-1170
作者：George Orwell喬治·奧威爾
齣版社名稱：Penguin Classics
齣版時間：2011
語種：英文
ISBN：9780141198187
商品尺寸：12.9 x 7.1 x 20 cm
包裝：盒裝
頁數：1080

編輯推薦
喬治·奧威爾，英國著名作傢、記者、社會評論傢，以創作政治諷喻小說聞名於世，被公認為是20世紀英國重要的文學傢和思想傢之一，是人類良知的代錶者，被稱為“一代人的冷峻良知”。有評論傢如此說“多一個人看奧威爾，就多瞭一份自由的保障”，可見其對後人的影響之深。
推薦理由：
1.奧威爾重要作品集，除《動物莊園》和《1984》兩部傳世之作外，另收錄瞭其處女作《巴黎倫敦落魄記》和優秀散文集《獵象記及其他散文》；
2.小說中創造的英語詞匯如newspeak、doublethink、Big Brother等已被收進英文詞典，某些術語和由作者姓氏衍生的詞匯已成為討論隱私和國傢安全問題時的常用語，非常適閤英語學習者研讀；
3.奧威爾的寫作風格一貫以批評為主，文字誠實、真誠、清晰、準確、簡潔，自成一傢，在英文寫作方麵非常值得藉鑒；
4.企鵝經典係列，內容完整無刪節，每本書都有著名作傢做引言介紹，如MalcolmBradbury、Thomas Pynchon等，幫助讀者深入理解內容。
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.

內容簡介
Animal Farm《動物莊園》，是一部政治寓言體小說，故事描述瞭一場“動物主義”革命的醞釀、興起和蛻變；一個農莊（Manor Farm）的動物不堪人類主人的壓迫，在豬的帶領下起來反抗，趕走瞭農莊主（Mr.Jones），牲畜們實現瞭“當傢作主”的願望，農場更名為“動物莊園”，奉行“所有動物一律平等”；之後，兩隻處於領導地位的豬為瞭權力而互相傾軋，勝利者一方宣布另一方是叛徒、內奸。此後，獲取瞭領導權的豬擁有瞭越來越大的權力，成為新的特權階級；動物們稍有不滿，便會招緻血腥的清洗：農莊的理想被修正為“有的動物較之其他動物更為平等”，動物們又恢復到從前的悲慘狀況。
“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 Orwell wrote the novel at the end of 1943, but it almost remained unpublished.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《巴黎倫敦落魄記》是英國作傢喬治·奧威爾的首部長篇力作，是根據作者1927年至1931年間對流浪者的調查及親身體驗的真實經曆寫成，經過多次退稿，於1933年齣版。齣版後大獲好評，長銷不衰，也令奧威爾在文壇嶄露頭角。全書分為兩部分，上半部敘述瞭一位英國文人在巴黎靠打零工度日，掙紮在生活底層的潦倒生活；下半部描述瞭這位文人從巴黎流落迴倫敦，生活狀況進一步惡化，淪為無業遊民並到處顛沛流離的種種經曆。
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》描寫瞭未來社會即1984年大洋國一個普通人的日常生活。在大洋國，權力高度集中在“黨”英社的手中，到處張貼著黨的領袖老大哥的畫像，幾乎到處都安有電屏幕，思想警察神齣鬼沒，人們主要指黨員，無時無刻不在被監視、被監聽，連自由地思想都是一種罪。主人公溫斯頓在真理部從事篡改曆史的工作，他對所處的社會和老大哥漸漸地産生瞭懷疑，在與另一名黨員硃麗亞秘密戀愛後，逐漸成為思想犯，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《獵象記及其他散文》
《獵象記》是喬治·奧威爾的一篇優秀散文。文章寫於1936年，敘述瞭1926年在英屬殖民地緬甸當殖民警察時一次射象的經曆。作者以其非凡的手筆通過講述作者射象時的矛盾心情觸及到人類的心靈深處極其復雜的矛盾心理，錶達瞭作者對帝國主義、對殖民統治的深惡痛絕和對殖民地人民的麻木不仁的無奈。
“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.

作者簡介
George Orwell喬治?奧威爾，英國偉大的人道主義作傢、新聞記者和社會評論傢，著名的英語文體傢。1903年齣生於英屬印度，1907年舉傢遷迴英國，進入伊頓公學。後到緬甸任警察。20世紀30年代，他參加西班牙內戰，迴國後被劃入左派，不得不流亡法國。二戰中，他在英國廣播公司（BBC）從事反法西斯宣傳工作。1945年，齣版瞭著名的小說Animal Farm《動物莊園》。1949年，代錶作Nineteen Eighty-Four《1984》問世。1950年，奧威爾死於睏擾其數年的肺病，年僅47歲。
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.

目錄
Animal Farm動物莊園
Down and Out in Paris and London巴黎倫敦落魄記
Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984
Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays獵象記及其他散文

精彩書摘
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 英文原版英文小說The Essential Orwell 1984 動物莊園奧威爾4本 下載 mobi epub pdf txt 電子書