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Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, "Burmese Days" describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when 'after all, natives were natives - interesting, no doubt, but finally only a 'subject' people, an inferior people with black faces'. Against the prevailing orthodoxy, Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Dr Veraswami, a black enthusiast for Empire. The doctor needs help. U Po Kyin, Sub-divisional Magistrate of Kyauktada, is plotting his downfall. The only thing that can save him is European patronage: membership of the hitherto all-white Club. While Flory prevaricates, beautiful Elizabeth Lackersteen arrives in Upper Burma from Paris. At last, after years of 'solitary hell', romance and marriage appear to offer Flory an escape from the 'lie' of the 'pukka sahib pose'.

Autobiographical work by George Orwell, published in 1933. Orwell's first published book, it contains essays in which actual events are recounted in a fictionalized form. The book recounts that to atone for the guilt he feels about the conditions under which the disenfranchised and downtrodden peoples of the world exist, Orwell decides to live and work as one of them. Dressed as a beggar, he takes whatever employment might be available to a poverty-stricken outcast of Europe. In Paris he lives in a slum and works as a dishwasher. The essay "How the Poor Die" describes conditions at a charity hospital there. In London's East End, he dresses and lives like his neighbors, who are paupers and the poorest of working-class laborers. Dressed as a tramp, he travels throughout England with hoboes and migrant laborers.

‘All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.’ Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one daz he forgets to feed his livestock. the ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Snowball leads to the animals taking over the farm. Vowing to eliminate the terrible inequities of the farmyard, the renamed Animal Farm is organized to benefit all who walk on four legs. But as time passes, the ideals of the rebellion are corrupted, then forgotten. And something new and unexpected emerges...

★62种文字风靡110个国家，全球销量超过5000万册 ★《时代周刊》“最好的100本英语小说” ★兰登书屋“100本20世纪最佳英语小说” ★入选英美中学生必读书书目 1936年以来，我所写的每一部严肃作品，都是直接或间接地反对极权主义，支持我所理解的民主社会主义。 ——乔治•奥威尔（《我为何写作》） 《1984》是一部杰出的政治寓言小说，也是一部幻想小说。作品刻画了人类在极权主义社会的生存状态，有若一个永不退色的警示标签，警醒世人提防这种预想中的黑暗成为现实。历经几十年，其生命力益显强大，被誉为20世纪影响最为深远的文学经典之一。

用动物对人类抗争后自建家园来再现前苏联的整个历史情形，奥威尔的《动物庄园》被公认为20世纪最杰出的政治寓言。《动物庄园》被译成20多种文字在全世界流传，其中的有些语言还变成了人们的口头禅，和《1984》并称为乔治·奥威尔最重要的代表作。本书也收录了《1984》。

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.

《我为什么要写作》收录了奥威尔最有影响力的社会、政治与文学随笔共19篇，集中描绘了作者不同时期对社会和人生的态度，着重回顾了写作生涯中的种种感想和体会。正如《星期日泰晤士报》书评作家赛里尔•康诺利说：“他所说的和他所写的每一个字都闪耀着个性的光芒。” 《我为什么要写作》随笔集收录了英国作家乔治•奥威尔最有影响力的社会、政治与文学随笔共十九篇，集中描绘了作者不同时期对社会和人生的态度（《如此欢乐童年》），着重回顾了写作生涯中的种种感想和体会（《我为什么要写作》）。不论是描写政治家的谎言、分析英国人的性格，还是揭露战争丑陋的真相，奥威尔的随笔一如他的小说般犀利而有趣。

A special large-format fiftieth-anniversary edition, illustrated in full color by Ralph Steadman. Includes Orwell’s proposed but unpublished preface to the original edition and his preface to the 1947 Ukrainian edition.

乔治•奥威尔可谓是20世纪最发人深省且文笔最为生动的随笔作家之一，他以过人的精力和毫不妥协的语言，用笔和纸与其时代的偏见进行抗争，也因此而闻名于世。本书收纳了作者最有影响力的社会、政治与文学随笔共14篇，其中包括较为著名的《所谓欢乐，不过如此这般……》,《猎象记》，《政治与英语》，《回顾西班牙内战》等，以及他不太为国内读者所知的文学随笔，如《查尔斯·狄更斯》，《拉迪亚德·吉卜林》，《置身鱼腹》，《我为什么写作》等。对初涉奥威尔的读者而言，本书是一部极好的入门读本；而对奥威尔烂熟于胸的读者来说，《我为什么写作》将是一部珍贵的合集，无价的文选。

《巴黎伦敦落魄记》是英国作家乔治·奥威尔的首部长篇力作。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，挣扎在生活最底层的潦倒生活；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。书中穿插了主人公的感想和评论，对贫困的真实含义做了做了深入剖析。 本书写于1931年，屡次遭遇退稿。1933年终于被一家英国出版商慧眼看中，予以出版。随着英文版获得如潮好评，法文版也被法国著名出版社重磅推出。至此，奥威尔的才华初见端倪，并在文坛崭露头角。随着奥威尔的地位得以肯定，此书被介绍到各国，长销不衰。 奥威尔是那种你永远无法真正摆脱的作家……似乎无可避免受到其影响，以至于对任何一个知识分子而言，如果他能拟出一个自己心目中的英雄的名单……很可能都会把他放在前两名或前三名。——金斯利·艾米斯 英国历史上最富想象力的人，（因为）他是向着新方向行进。——V.S.奈保尔 他的《巴黎伦敦落魂记》让我喜欢得要命，我认为它是一部经典著作。在我看来，这仍是他的最佳作品。——亨利·米勒

小说的主人公乔治·保灵是一个卖保险的中年人，住在位于伦敦郊区的一座普通房子里，有妻子和两个孩子。有一天，他拿到了新做的假牙后，突然感到需要“上来透口气”。 拿着从赛马中赢得的十七镑，他避开家人溜去他童年时住过的小镇，他还去了他惦记了三十年的一个池塘里钓鱼，只不过池塘里没水了，小镇也变得让他认不出。保灵在假期中经历的最重要的事件是英国皇家空军的一次误炸。

Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson --This text refers to the Paperback edition.