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1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four

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內容簡介 BBC「塑造世界的百大小說」之一哈潑柯林斯精選必讀經典，再現文學永恆力量。溫斯頓．史密斯的工作是竄改歷史。在「真理部」的檔案部裡，他默默修改過去的紀錄，協助黨和無所不在的老大哥操控整個奧帕尼亞國的人們。作為一個順從的公民，他必須絕對忠誠、戒除一切私欲、最重要的是──不能擁有獨立思考。但當他開始在一本筆記本裡寫下屬於自己的想法時，這違禁行為也種下了內心反抗的種子──一顆可能毀滅他生命的種子。 在喬治．歐威爾最後也是最知名的小說中，他描繪了一個極權政府不僅掌控行為、言語，甚至連情感與思想都能支配的反烏托邦世界。透過對語言、歷史與監控的深刻描寫，本書成為當代政治寓言的經典，也是一封針對現代社會的警世預言書。One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Winston Smith rewrites history. It’s his job. Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party, and the omnipresent Big Brother, control the people of Oceania.Winston knows what a good citizen of Oceania must do: show his devotion for Big Brother and the Party; abstain from all vices; and, most importantly, possess no critical thoughts of their own. The new notebook he’s begun to write in is definitely against the rules – in fact, the Thought Police could arrest him simply for having it. Yet, as Winston begins to write his own history, a seed of rebellion begins to grow in his heart – one that could have devastating consequences.In George Orwell’s final and most well-known novel, he explores a dystopian future in which a totalitarian government controls the actions, thoughts and even emotions of its citizens, exercising power through control of language and history. Its lasting popularity is testament to Orwell’s powerful prose, and is a passionate political warning for today.

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作者介紹

作者介紹 關於作者喬治．歐威爾，本名艾瑞克．亞瑟．布萊爾（Eric Arthur Blair，1903–1950），英國記者、散文家、評論家與小說家。最廣為人知的作品為《動物農莊》與《一九八四》，其文字至今依然對世界產生深遠影響。About the authorGeorge Orwell is one of England's most famous writers and social commentators. Among his works are the classic political satire Animal Farm and the dystopian nightmare vision Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell was also a prolific essayist, and it is for these works that he was perhaps best known during his lifetime. They include Why I Write and Politics and the English Language. His writing is at once insightful, poignant and entertaining, and continues to be read widely all over the world.Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in 1903 in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. The family moved to England in 1907 and in 1917 Orwell entered Eton, where he contributed regularly to the various college magazines. From 1922 to 1927 he served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, an experience that inspired his first novel, Burmese Days (1934). Several years of poverty followed. He lived in Paris for two years before returning to England, where he worked successively as a private tutor, schoolteacher and bookshop assistant, and contributed reviews and articles to a number of periodicals. Down and Out in Paris and London was published in 1933. In 1936 he was commissioned by Victor Gollancz to visit areas of mass unemployment in Lancashire and Yorkshire, and The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) is a powerful description of the poverty he saw there.At the end of 1936 Orwell went to Spain to fight for the Republicans and was wounded. Homage to Catalonia is his account of the civil war. He was 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 he served in the Home Guard and worked for the BBC Eastern Service from 1941 to 1943. As literary editor of the Tribune he contributed a regular page of political and literary commentary, and he also wrote for the Observer and later for the Manchester Evening News. His unique political allegory, Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame.It was around this time that Orwell's unique political allegory Animal Farm (1945) was published. The novel is recognised as a classic of modern political satire and is simultaneously an engaging story and convincing allegory. It was this novel, together with Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which finally brought him world-wide fame. Nineteen Eighty-Four's ominous depiction of a repressive, totalitarian regime shocked contemporary readers, but ensures that the book remains perhaps the preeminent dystopian novel of modern literature.Orwell's fiercely moral writing has consistently struck a chord with each passing generation. The intense honesty and insight of his essays and non-fiction made Orwell one of the foremost social commentators of his age. Added to this, his ability to construct elaborately imaginative fictional worlds, which he imbued with this acute sense of morality, has undoubtedly assured his contemporary and future relevance.George Orwell died in London in January 1950.

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最佳賣點 : BBC「塑造世界的百大小說」之一哈潑柯林斯精選必讀經典，再現文學永恆力量，喬治．歐威爾最後也是最知名的小說《一九八四》描繪了一個極權政府不僅掌控行為、言語，甚至連情感與思想都能支配的反烏托邦世界。透過對語言、歷史與監控的深刻描寫，本書成為當代政治寓言的經典，也是一封針對現代社會的警世預言書。

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