The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever.
is still the great modern classic of "negative utopia"—a startlingly original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing, from the first sentence to the last four words. No one can deny the novel's hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.

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.

Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls people every second of the day. He fights this world with love. But it's dangerous: love for another person can be punished by death - and Big Brother is always watching.
Orwell's classic story shows that there is no freedom unless ideas and beliefs can be questioned. This is as true today as when it was written, more than fifty years ago.

In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith joins a secret revolutionary organisation called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.
Animal Farm is Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution - an account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones’s Manor Farm into Animal Farm - a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. But are they? AUTHOR: George Orwell (1903-1950) was born in India and served with the Imperial Police in Burma before joining the Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. Orwell was the author of six novels as well as numerous essays and nonfiction works.

Having got rid of their human master, the animals of Manor Farm look forward to a life of freedom and plenty. But as a clever, ruthless elite among them takes control, the other animals find themselves hopelessly ensnared in the old ways. Orwell's chilling story of the betrayal of idealism through tyranny and corruption, is as fresh and relevant today as when it was first published in 1945.

'Politics and the English Language' is widely considered Orwell's most important essay on style. Style, for Orwell, was never simply a question of aesthetics; it was always inextricably linked to politics and to truth.'All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.'Language is a political issue, and slovenly use of language and cliches make it easier for those in power to deliberately use misleading language to hide unpleasant political facts. Bad English, he believed, was a vehicle for oppressive ideology, and it is no accident that 'Politics and the English Language' was written after the close of World War II.

As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved back and forth across the porous borders between essay and journalism, high art and low. A frequent commentator on literature, language, film, and drama throughout his career, Orwell turned increasingly to the critical essay in the 1940s, when his most important experiences were behind him and some of his most incisive writing lay ahead.
All Art Is Propaganda follows Orwell as he demonstrates in piece after piece how intent analysis of a work or body of work gives rise to trenchant aesthetic and philosophical commentary. With masterpieces such as "Politics and the English Language" and "Rudyard Kipling" and gems such as "Good Bad Books," here is an unrivaled education in, as George Packer puts it, "how to be interesting, line after line."

Newspeak, Doublethink, Big Brother, the Thought Police - George Orwell's novel coined new and potent words of warning for us all. It is one of the most brilliant satires on totalitarianism ever written. 'It is a volley against the authoritarian in every personality, a polemic against every orthodoxy, an anarchistic blast against every unquestioning conformist..."Nineteen Eighty-four" is a great novel and a great tract because of the clarity of its call, and it will endure because its message is a permanent one: erroneous thought is the stuff of freedom' - Ben Pimlott.

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Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit. Only Rosemary, ever-faithful Rosemary, has the strength to challenge his commitment to his chosen way of life. Through the character of Gordon Comstock, Orwell reveals his own disaffection with the society he once himself renounced.

《奥威尔经典文集》包括《动物农庄》、《一九八四》以及九篇随笔，
《动物农庄》以寓言的形式嘲笑苏联的社会制度，《一九八四》幻想人在未来的高度集权的国家中的命运。而《奥威尔随笔》则以风格明晰简练著称。

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With extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity, George Orwell’s 1984 takes on new life in this hardcover edition.

“Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”— The New Yorker
 
In 1984 , London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.

Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece “ 1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell’s novel remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.

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人類文明的進步使人理解自由的可貴，思想的重要！
沒有《緬甸歲月》，不會出現《一九八四》和《動物農莊》
要真正讀懂《一九八四》與《動物農莊》，必須先讀《緬甸歲月》
台灣首度完整翻譯出版，全面呈現才子小說家喬治‧歐威爾（George Orwell）的文學成就！
★《一九八四》、《動物農莊》作者喬治‧歐威爾（George Orwell）首部自傳體小說　全新中譯本
★名列《時代雜誌》「1945年後最偉大的五十位英國作家之一」
歐威爾曾作為大英帝國的警察，在殖民地緬甸生活了五年，這段生活經歷不僅成為他創作《緬甸歲月》的素材，還幫助塑造了他的文學視野。他刻畫殖民地的墮落與反思，種族歧視和身分認同，也發揮優美的文筆生動描摹熱帶風光，小至衣著，大至鄉間景色，還有衝突不止的愛恨交織，為緬甸留下了無可抹滅的歷史紀錄，鮮活擘畫了人們不該遺忘的時代。
英國木材商弗洛里不到二十歲即在緬甸工作，一開始他與其他殖民地英國人一樣，飲酒、作樂，找女人玩樂；偶爾到當時的首都仰光一趟，買些英國來的新小說，去安德遜餐廳享用包覆在冰中跨越八千英里而來的牛排與牛油，既有殖民主一般的權威，亦舒適寬鬆。那時，他還太年輕，不清楚接下來的生活會如何，無法預見接下來幾年面對孤單、無聊、腐敗的生活……
維拉斯瓦米醫師是緬甸當地人，他惹上地方官，又因為自己的黑皮膚，案情更加嚴重。他央求好友弗洛里幫他一把：只要弗洛里幫助他進入都是白人的英國俱樂部，他的地位就可獲得保護，沒人敢找他麻煩了。
弗洛里與其他英國人不同，他反感其他白人那種高高在上的態度，喜歡與當地人交朋友，還有個緬甸情婦，然而，他最痛楚的地方也在於此：他不敢直接表露自己的態度，無法在俱樂部坦言自己的主張，但他的內心深處實在見不慣這些「白人老爺」的嘴臉。
然而，維拉斯瓦米醫師對英國相當崇拜，即使被英國人痛罵千百回也無法讓他動搖。他仍以正面的態度，認為自己這樣一個印度人，屬於較劣等墮落的種族，而英國人帶來了法律、秩序與「不列顛治世」──弗洛里反駁他：「不列顛窒息，醫師，不列顛窒息才是適當的名稱。不管怎麼說，誰得到了治世的好處？只有債主和律師而已。為了自己的利益著想，我們當然會維持印度的和平，但這些法治最後帶來了什麼？只有更多的銀行和監獄而已。」
弗洛里煽動的想法往往讓維拉斯瓦米醫師相當震驚，但也讓他感到相當痛快，因為這麼虔誠的信徒居然會聽到相反的禱文。為什麼弗洛里如此與眾不同，或許，這一切與他臉上的疤痕有關。弗洛里深知，與別人不同，不代表就是低人一等。
當一切悶窒無處可解時，來自巴黎的伊莉莎白吸引了弗洛里，他終於得以逃出在緬甸的寂寞生活，不再理會殖民地的做作謊言，卻沒想到，更大的悲劇正要開始了……

Un certain 21 juin eut lieu en Angleterre la révolte des animaux. Les cochons dirigent le nouveau régime. Snowball et Napoléon, cochons en chef, affichent un règlement : "Tout ce qui est sur deux jambes est un ennemi. Tout ce qui est sur quatre jambes ou possède des ailes est un ami. Aucun animal ne portera de vêtements. Aucun animal ne dormira dans un lit. Aucun animal ne boira d'alcool. Aucun animal ne tuera un autre animal. Tous les animaux sont égaux." Le temps passe. La pluie efface les commandements. L'âne, un cynique, arrive encore à déchiffrer : "Tous les animaux sont égaux, mais (il semble que cela ait été rajouté) il y en a qui le sont plus que d'autres."

"Politics and the English Language" (1946) is an essay by George Orwell that criticises the "ugly and inaccurate" written English of his time and examines the connection between political orthodoxies and the debasement of language. The essay focuses on political language, which, according to Orwell, "is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." Orwell believed that the language used was necessarily vague or meaningless because it was intended to hide the truth rather than express it.

Whether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittily dissecting the English character or telling unpalatable truths about war, Orwell's timeless, uncompromising essays are more relevant, entertaining and essential than ever in today's era of spin.
Contents:
"Why I Write", first published 1946
"The Lion and the Unicorn", first published 1940
"A Hanging", first published 1931
"Politics and the English Language", first published 1946

Nineteen Eighty Four, by George Orwell - Akasha Classics, AkashaPublishing.Com - It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him. The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At one end of it a coloured poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. It depicted imply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features. Winston made for the stairs. It was no use trying the lift. Even at the best of times it was seldom working, and at present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours. It was part of the economy drive in preparation for Hate Week. The flat was seven flights up, and Winston, who was thirty-nine and had a varicose ulcer above his right ankle, went slowly, resting several times on the way. On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.