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Animal Farm

by George Orwell

ISBN13: 9780451526342
ISBN10: 0451526341
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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 pen can be mightier than the sword.

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revisit Orwellas classic satire Animal Farm

As ferociously fresh as it was more than a half century ago, this remarkable allegory of a downtrodden society of overworked, mistreated animals and their quest to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality is one of the most scathing satires ever published. As readers witness the rise and bloody fall of the revolutionary animals, they begin to recognize the seeds of totalitarianism in the most idealistic organizationaand in the most charismatic leaders, the souls of the cruelest oppressors.

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Orwell's brilliant 1946 satire, chronicling a revolution staged by the animals on Mr. Jones's farm.

About the Author

Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in 1903 in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. The family moved to England in 1907 and in 1917 Orwell entered Eton, where he contributed regularly to the various college magazines. From 1922 to 1927 he served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, an experience that inspired his first novel, Burmese Days (1934). Several years of poverty followed. He lived in Paris for two years before returning to England, where he worked successively as a private tutor, schoolteacher and bookshop assistant, and contributed reviews and articles to a number of periodicals. Down and Out in Paris and London was published in 1933.

In 1936, he was commissioned by Victor Gollancz to visit areas of mass unemployment in Lancashire and Yorkshire, and The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) is a powerful description of the poverty he saw there. At the end of 1936 Orwell went to Spain to fight for the Republicans and was wounded, and Homage to Catalonia is his account of the civil war. He was 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 he served in the Home Guard and worked for the BBC Eastern Service from 1941 to 1943. As literary editor of the Tribune he contributed a regular page of political and literary commentary, and he also wrote for the Observer and later for the Manchester Evening News. His unique political 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 died in London in January 1950. A few days before, Desmond MacCarthy had sent him a message of greeting in which he wrote: 'You have made an indelible mark on English literature...you are among the few memorable writers of your generation.'

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: lucuador1992, May 19, 2009 (view all comments by lucuador1992)
This was an amazing and well-thought book. I read this book in the 9th grade (currently in 11th) and first i thought it was silly because of the animal's ability to talk to humans, But as you continue reading, you completely forget that point and become intrigued and delightful of what will happen next. How the life of the animals changed and the many struggles they encountered can be greatly seen in the communist stuggles in history. I will be getting this book for my own, and I'm proud!
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: foremanj2525, November 18, 2007 (view all comments by foremanj2525)
i love this book. i just recently read it in my 8th grade language arts class. AWESOME!!!! it portrayed the natzes well!! read... reread... read... read again... again and again.
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: kcoraline, October 25, 2007 (view all comments by kcoraline)
Some of us like to believe that we would make a diffence and take a stand but most people just want to fit in and belong. basic human nature is to control and manipulate others to better ourselves. And i believe this book represents this instinct and the one to fight it.
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Product Details

ISBN:: 9780451526342
Introduction:: Woodhouse, C. M.
Preface:: Baker, Russell
Preface:: Baker, Russell
Introduction:: Woodhouse, C. M.
Author:: Orwell, George
Author:: Baker, Russell
Author:: Woodhouse, C. M.
Publisher:: Signet Book
Location:: Charlotte Hall, MD
Subject:: Fiction
Subject:: English language
Subject:: Classics
Subject:: British and irish fiction (fictional works by
Subject:: Domestic animals
Subject:: Fables
Subject:: Satire
Subject:: Political fiction
Subject:: Orwell, george, 1903-1950
Subject:: Totalitarianism
Subject:: Allegories
Subject:: Readers for new literates
Subject:: Talking books.
Subject:: Utopian fiction
Subject:: General Fiction
Edition Number:: 50
Edition Description:: Anniversary Paperback
Series:: Signet Classics
Series Volume:: 22
Publication Date:: April 1996
Binding:: Mass Market Paperbound
Grade Level:: General/trade
Language:: English
Illustrations:: Y
Pages:: 144
Dimensions:: 7.55x4.29x.47 in. .26 lbs.
Age Level:: Ages 14

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