Animal Farm
George Orwell
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
organized 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…
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George Orwell’s timeless
and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a downtrodden
society’s blind march towards totalitarianism.
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
A
farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming
idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of
progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the
most telling satiric fables ever penned—a razor-edged fairy tale for
grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a
totalitarianism just as terrible.
When Animal Farm was first
published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is
devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked,
under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George
Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.
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