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 ...(展开全部)

乔治·奥威尔（George Orwell），本名埃里克·亚瑟·布莱尔（Eric Arthur Blair）。1903年生于印度，当时，他的父亲在当地的殖民地政府供职，用他自己的话说，他家属于“中产阶级的下层，或没有钱财的中产家庭”。 1904年，由母亲带他先回到了英国。他自幼天资聪颖，11岁时就在报纸上发表了一篇诗作《醒来吧，英格兰的小伙子们》。14岁又考入著名的伊顿（Eton）公学，并获取了奖学金。但早在小学时期，他就饱尝了被富家子弟歧视的苦涩，从他后来的回顾中可以看出，凭他那天生就很敏感的心灵，这时已经对不平等有了初步的体验。 1921年，布莱尔从伊顿毕业后考取了公职，到缅甸当了一名帝国警察，在那里，被奴役的殖民地人民的悲惨生活无时不在刺激着他的良知。看着他们在饥寒交迫中、在任人宰割的被奴役中挣扎，他深深感到“帝国主义是一种暴虐”。身为一名帝国警...(展开全部)

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 ...(展开全部)

The words of Jess Lair have appealed to me for many years, as he writes in an easy, humorous manner. After a near-fatal heart attack in his 30's, Lair began to examine the life choices he had made. Eventually, he chose to end his high-stress career as an advertising executive, and became a teacher. There he found the fulfillment he'd been looking for. Yet, he began to ask himse...(展开全部)

Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for their world or ours. Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But h...(展开全部)

Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for their world or ours. Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But h...(展开全部)