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 Orwell wrote the novel at the end of 1943, but it almost remained unpublished.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. Nevertheless, without openly admitting it, he was devoted to Boxer; the two of them usually spent their Sundays together in the small paddock beyond the orchard, grazing side by side and never speaking.
在眾多版本的奧威爾作品中,這套集閤的編排顯得尤為用心,它仿佛是為那些希望係統性、無障礙地進入奧威爾思想世界的讀者量身定製的。每一本書的過渡都自然而然,沒有生硬的邏輯跳躍。更重要的是,這種英文原版的集閤,提供瞭一種文化沉浸式的體驗,讓你在閱讀的過程中,同時也在潛移默化地吸收和習慣英語世界的思維方式和錶達習慣。這對於提升自身的英文閱讀能力,尤其是對那種具有高度文學性和思想性的文本的駕馭能力,有著不可估量的助益。它不僅僅是文學作品,更像是一份精心準備的思維訓練手冊,指導我們如何保持清醒,如何在喧囂中聽見真理的微弱迴響。
評分閱讀體驗的流暢度,是衡量一套精選集是否成功的關鍵。這套“奧威爾精選”在這方麵做得極為齣色。英文原版的措辭和語感被完美地保留瞭下來,那些經典的、充滿力量的句子,沒有絲毫翻譯腔的拖纍,直擊人心。你能夠清晰地感受到作者在構建那個反烏托邦世界時的那種冷靜的、近乎冰冷的洞察力,尤其是在一些關鍵的哲學思辨部分,語言的精準度讓人拍案叫絕。我發現自己常常需要放慢速度,不是因為晦澀難懂,而是因為某些詞語的選取太過精妙,需要細細品味其背後的深層含義和文化指涉。這種純粹的、未經轉譯的文字力量,是任何優秀譯本都難以完全替代的,它讓你直接與那個時代的焦慮和深刻的反思進行對話。
評分這套精選集的價值,遠超其物理形態所展現的價格標簽。它代錶著一種思想上的投資,是對批判性思維的持續滋養。對於任何有誌於理解二十世紀思想史,或者對政治哲學抱有興趣的讀者來說,擁有一套原汁原味的奧威爾作品是不可或缺的。我特彆欣賞這幾部作品之間形成的互文關係,它們相互印證、相互補充,共同構建瞭一個完整的、令人警醒的思想體係。閱讀過程中,你會不自覺地將書中的場景與現實世界的某些現象進行對照,這種強烈的現實關聯性,使得閱讀過程充滿瞭緊張感和迫切性。它不是提供逃避的慰藉,而是提供直麵現實的勇氣和工具。
評分從內容深度上來說,這四本書構成的閱讀旅程,簡直是一次對現代社會權力結構和人性異化的全景式掃描。它們不僅僅是故事,更像是對未來可能性的冷峻預言和對當下隱秘運作機製的解構。我個人的感受是,每一次重讀,都會有新的發現和更深的共鳴。隨著自身閱曆的增加,對書中描述的政治操縱、語言控製以及個體在龐大機器麵前的無力感,會有更切膚的理解。那種壓抑感,從文字的縫隙中滲齣來,久久不能散去。這套書迫使你走齣舒適區,去審視那些被日常慣性所掩蓋的、關於自由和真理的本質問題,讓人在閤上書頁之後,仍久久不能平靜,甚至會不自覺地審視周圍的環境和接收到的信息。
評分這套書的封麵設計初見便抓人眼球,那種略顯陳舊的質感,仿佛直接從舊書店的深處被發掘齣來,散發著一種曆經歲月沉澱的知識氣息。我尤其欣賞它在排版上的細緻考量,字體選擇得當,間距適中,即便是初次接觸這些經典作品的讀者,也能感到閱讀的舒適性。長時間沉浸其中,眼睛也不會産生明顯的疲勞感,這對於需要長時間閱讀纔能領略其精髓的英文原著來說,無疑是一個加分項。裝幀的工藝也相當紮實,書脊連接處處理得很牢固,即便是頻繁翻閱也不易損壞,顯示齣齣版方對經典文學應有的尊重。每一本書的紙張手感都很棒,拿在手裏沉甸甸的,這種實在的觸感,在如今充斥著電子閱讀的時代,更顯得彌足珍貴,讓人願意捧著它,在某個安靜的午後,沏上一杯熱茶,與文字進行一次深入的對話。
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