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所有動物一律平等，但有些動物比其他動物更平等。 劉紹銘教授重新翻譯歐威爾經典名作 曼納農莊莊主鍾斯先生飽食終日，性嗜杯中物，為人刻薄寡恩，農莊內的大小豬狗牛羊雞馬騾，日間撐着老命給莊主幹活，吃的只夠半飽，且不說工作表現一不如意就得受皮肉之苦。 且說一個仲夏之夜鍾斯在酒鋪買醉，晨昏顛倒，隔天中午才回到農莊，完全沒有把餵飼動物這回事放在心上。他一摸進家門便倒頭睡在客廳沙發上。動物們也因此一直空着肚子捱餓。最後他們實在忍不住了，但見一隻牛用角撞開貯糧庫的大門，各動物應聲而上，各自分頭從飼料箱取東西填肚子。 鍾斯先生這時突然驚醒，一瞬間跟手下四名傭工趕到貯糧庫，手執皮鞭四邊狠狠的抽打一番。這教肚子餓壞了的動物忍無可忍，大夥兒不約而同撲向一直折磨他們的狠心主人。鍾斯一夥突然發覺四面受敵，被犄角牴，蹄子踢，形勢完全失控。他們從沒見過或想過動物竟然有此舉動。這些牲畜都曾經是他們隨意鞭撻、即興折磨的奴隸，現在居然變了面，怎教他不嚇破了膽。就在這電光火石的一刻，他們決定不再糾纏了，拔腿飛跑，離開了曼納農莊。 動物終於當家作主，成了農莊主人，從此─ 歐威爾的《動物農莊》原副題為「童話故事」，旨在諷刺蘇聯革命，並推而廣之警醒大眾在種種煽動的、危險的「社會主義」論調中保持清醒，提高警覺。

Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey's new look for Orwell's timeless satire 'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.' Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Snowball leads to the animals taking over the farm. Vowing to eliminate the terrible inequities of the farmyard, the renamed Animal Farm is organised to benefit all who walk on four legs. But as time passes, the ideals of the rebellion are corrupted, then forgotten. And something new and unexpected emerges. . . Animal Farm - the history of a revolution that went wrong - is George Orwell's brilliant satire on the corrupting influence of power.

Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey's new look for Orwell's dystopian masterpiece Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent - even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101. . . 1984 is George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime. 'Right up there among my favourite books ... I read it again and again' Margaret Atwood 'More relevant to today than almost any other book that you can think of' Jo Brand

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author of Say Nothing, as featured in the HBO documentary Crime of the Century.

The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions—Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and the sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis.

Empire of Pain begins with the story of three doctor brothers, Raymond, Mortimer and the incalculably energetic Arthur, who weathered the poverty of the Great Depression and appalling anti-Semitism. Working at a barbaric mental institution, Arthur saw a better way and conducted groundbreaking research into drug treatments. He also had a genius for marketing, especially for pharmaceuticals, and bought a small ad firm.

Arthur devised the marketing for Valium, and built the first great Sackler fortune. He purchased a drug manufacturer, Purdue Frederick, which would be run by Raymond and Mortimer. The brothers began collecting art, and wives, and grand residences in exotic locales. Their children and grandchildren grew up in luxury.

Forty years later, Raymond’s son Richard ran the family-owned Purdue. The template Arthur Sackler created to sell Valium—co-opting doctors, influencing the FDA, downplaying the drug’s addictiveness—was employed to launch a far more potent product: OxyContin. The drug went on to generate some thirty-five billion dollars in revenue, and to launch a public health crisis in which hundreds of thousands would die.

This is the saga of three generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the world, a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early twentieth-century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Cap d’Antibes to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. Empire of Pain chronicles the multiple investigations of the Sacklers and their company, and the scorched-earth legal tactics that the family has used to evade accountability. The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama—baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful.

Empire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling. It is a portrait of the excesses of America’s second Gilded Age, a study of impunity among the super elite and a relentless investigation of the naked greed and indifference to human suffering that built one of the world’s great fortunes.