一九八四（译文名著精选）(Nineteen Eighty-Four(selected translation masterpiece))

乔治·奥威尔(1903—1950)是英国伟大的人道主义作家、新闻记者和社会评论家，著名的英语文体家。《一九八四》(1949)是奥威尔的传世之作，堪称世界文坛最著名的反乌托邦、反极权的政治讽喻小说。他在小说中创造的"老大哥"、"双重思想"、"新话"等词汇都已收人权威的英语词典，甚至由他的姓衍生出"奥威尔式"(Orwellian)、"奥威尔主义"(Orwellism)这样的通用词汇，不断出现在报道国际新闻的记者笔下，足见其作品在英语国家影响之深远。"多一个人看奥威尔，就多了一分自由的保障，"有论家如是说。 (George Orwell (1903-1950) was a great British novelist of humanitarian, essayist, journalist and critic. As masterpiece of Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four is literary political fiction and dystopian science-fiction opposition to totalitarianism. Big Brother, doublethink, newspeak and other vocabularies have been included in authoritative English dictionary. Universal words such as Orwellian and Orwellism have been derived from Orwell, which continuously appeared at the coverage of international news reporters, indicating the profound impacts of the works in English-speaking countries. "One more reader of Orwell, one more freedom there will be". said by the critics. )