这世上再有谁想写“极权”，也无法超越这本1948年写成的《1984》《一九八四》仿佛一个永不褪色的警世标签，它警醒世人提防这种预想中的黑暗成为现实。比小说更黑暗的，是现实。你会发现，一切极权统治下的细节都惊人地复制了这部作品！这是一个战后虚拟的世界，全球分割为3个性质雷同、相互攻伐的极权帝国——大洋国、欧亚国与东亚国。在大洋国，人们极度崇拜首领“老大哥”。在你卧室、客厅、路上、电梯……任何地方，都悬挂着监视的铁幕。这是西方文学史和思想史上从未出现过的黑暗想象，更黑暗的是，它在不同国家的未来分别成为了现实。当人们虚幻地以为看到了世界的希望时，奥威尔指出，那是一条极其危险的路。
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Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell. The novel is set in Airstrip One, formerly Great Britain, a province of the superstate Oceania. Oceania is a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation. Oceania's residents are dictated by a political regime euphemistically named English Socialism (shortened to "Ingsoc" in Newspeak, the government's invented language). The superstate is under the control of the privileged, elite Inner Party.
Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, an attitude that was critically shaped by his experiences during the Spanish Civil War. The Soviet Union, he believed, had become a brutal dictatorship, built upon a cult of personality and enforced by a reign of terror.