Novel by George Orwell, published in 1949 as a warning about the menaces of totalitarianism. The novel is set in an imaginary future world that is dominated by three perpetually warring totalitarian police states

In the 1930s Orwell was sent by a socialist book club to investigate the appalling mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. He went beyond his assignment to investigate the employed as well-”to see the most typical section of the English working class.” Foreword by Victor Gollancz.

George Orwell was an inveterate keeper of diaries. "The Orwell Diaries" presents eleven of them, covering the period 1931-1949, and follows Orwell from his early years as a writer to his last literary notebook. An entry from 1931 tells of a communal shave in the Trafalgar Square fountains, while notes from his travels through industrial England show the development of the impassioned social commentator. This same acute power of observation is evident in his diaries from Morocco, as well as at home, where his domestic diaries chart the progress of his garden and animals with a keen eye; the wartime diaries, from descriptions of events overseas to the daily violence closer to home, describe astutely his perspective on the politics of both, and provide a new and entirely refreshing insight into Orwell's character and his great works.

A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, "The Road to Wigan Pier" is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. His graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment are written with unblinking honesty, fury and great humanity. It crystallized the ideas that would be found in Orwell's later works and novels, and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class divisions in Britain.

聪明的猪只拿破仑，以崇高的理想为号召， 推翻了人类主子，所有动物深以为从此可以自己做主， 不再有蹂躏压榨、弱肉强食、勾心斗角。 不料，初尝权利滋味的拿破仑开始整肃异己，赶尽杀绝，一心巩固领导地位，维护尊荣享受。 能言善道的尖叫者帮着拿破仑粉饰太平， 勤恳老实的拳击手不疑有他，只知牺牲奉献，甚至赔上性命在所不惜。 在雪球与拿破仑身上，你将看到一个国家、社会乃至企业组织，如何上演赤裸龌龊的权利争夺战。 在尖叫者身上，你将看到狗腿大王如何攀龙附凤。 而在拳击手身上，你将看到自己的一切努力如何的枉然与徒劳! 当今稳坐经典地位的《动物农庄》，出版当时却再三遭到退稿。 在维权人士与主流媒体滴水不漏的操作下，一代文豪欧威尔无视于舆论压力， 大无畏地戳破人们昧于「对国家忠诚」、「对权威迫害视若无睹」的重重精巧谎言， 为滔滔混世敲响一记警钟———— 觉悟吧!别再让你我自甘沦为权力游戏底下的一颗棋子，别再随波逐流!

Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell's narrative is more timely that ever. 1984 presents a "negative utopia, " that is at once a startling and haunting vision of the world -- so powerful that it is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the power of this novel, its hold on the imaginations of entire generations of readers, or the resiliency of its admonitions -- a legacy that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.

ANIMAL FARM George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture. It is the 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. Out of their cleverness, the pigs Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball emerge as leaders of the new community in a subtle evolution that proves disastrous. The climax is the brutal betrayal of the faithful horse Boxer, when totalitarian rule is reestablished with the bloodstained postscript to the founding slogan: But some Animals Are More Equal Than Others. . . . 1984 In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston 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.

Nineteen Eighty-Four revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth century’s greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has had the opposite fate: its relevance and power to disturb our complacency seem to grow decade by decade. In Winston Smith’s desperate struggle to free himself from an all-encompassing, malevolent state, Orwell zeroed in on tendencies apparent in every modern society, and made vivid the universal predicament of the individual. (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

★《時代雜誌》評選百大經典小說 ★藍燈書屋《當代文庫》評選二十世紀百大最佳小說 ★紐約公共圖書館評選世紀之書 在冷酷異境中，預言了人類的命運。 問世六十週年紀念！獨家授權繁體中文版，全新校譯本！ ◎過去六十年來極為重要的一本書。　──南方朔 ◎對我個人，那是第一次神的啟示。　──陳芳明 ◎隨著時間推移，益發讓人佩服作者的遠見和深意。　──單德興 ◎1984年早已過去，但人類的權力欲望及科技的失速發展，卻使我們益加逼近1984的天啟時刻。　──廖咸浩 ◎二十世紀的代表作……黑暗的命運令人讀之難忘。　──英國獨立報 ◎喬治‧歐威爾的遺世傑作……是了解現代歷史不可或缺而又引人入勝的一本書。　──紐約書評 ＊ 你發出的每一個聲音，都有人在聽著；你的每一個舉動，都有人監視著… 《一九八四》是英國作家喬治‧歐威爾於一九四八年創作的預言小說，描寫到了未來的一九八四年，人類生活在極權統治的恐怖世界裡，人性完全遭到扼殺。書中主角溫斯頓在政府的真理部工作，每天根據黨政府的需要捏造新聞、竄改歷史，卑微的生存使他對現狀產生了懷疑：每個人的一舉一動都受到電幕監視，在黨的教育下小孩也從小監視、檢舉父母，親情、友情、愛情蕩然無存；大家明明吃不飽穿不暖，但是黨的豐收報告從來沒有人質疑。在物質與精神生活都極端貧乏空洞的生活當中，反叛黨的念頭在他心中萌芽，他開始躲在電幕拍不到的死角寫日記，開始與女同事有了一段祕密戀情，同時也開始懷疑部門主管其實是地下反叛組織的成員。然而在一個惡魔的世界裡，你要如何確知另一個人是站在自己這一邊？ 《一九八四》已成了二十世紀的經典文學，出版四十年後，就已被翻譯成至少六十五種語言，使歐威爾成了史上作品譯本最多的作家。本書對英語的影響也非常深遠，書中的「老大哥」、「思想警察」、「雙重思想」等術語不僅在英文裡流傳，甚至中文也經常使用。

George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond recognition, and the principal event of his holiday is an accidental bombing by the RAF.

In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fascists. This famous account describes the war and Orwell’s experiences. Introduction by Lionel Trilling.

George Orwell's timeless fable--a parable for would-be liberators everywhere, glimpsed through the lens of our own history As ferociously fresh as it was more than a half century ago, this remarkable allegory of a downtrodden society of overworked, mistreated animals, and their quest to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality is one of the most scathing satires ever published. As we witness the rise and bloody fall of the revolutionary animals, we begin to recognize the seeds of totalitarianism in the most idealistic organization; and in our most charismatic leaders, the souls of our cruelest oppressors.

ANIMAL FARM was George Orwell's satirical shot at the then-new totalitarianism of the left. It is so accurate that no one has been able to do it better or more effectively, or even come close. Who can forget "All Animals Are Created Equal, But Some Are More Equal Than Others." By putting wisdom in the mouths of animals, Orwell uses an age-old artifice and proves again how the pen can be mightier than the sword.

In this chronicle of his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, George Orwell brings to bear all the force of his humanity, passion and clarity, describing with bitter intensity the bright hopes and cynical betrayals of that chaotic and brutal episode in European history. 'An unrivaled picture of the rumors, suspicions and treachery of civil war'.

This unusual fictional account, in good part autobiographical, narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer among the down-and-out of two great cities. In the tales of both cities we learn some sobering Orwellian truths about poverty and society.

A collection of eighteen essays by the author of Nineteen Eighty Four and Animal Farm, etc. these represent the last of his finished work. There is excellent reading here, whether it be the title piece on the English colonial attitude, or his thoughts on books, poetry, cigarettes, a report on a hanging and a death, reflections on Gandhi, a toad, English murder, and other assorted topics, and in the field of the essay this provides fine style as well as stimulating thinking. For the selective reader as well as his established followers. (Kirkus Reviews) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.