SUMMARY: Featuring a new preface, this classic satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government is once again brought to life for a new generation of readers. Reissue.
Animal farm: a fairy story
β Scribed by Orwell, George
- Publisher
- Mariner Books : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 112 KB
- Edition
- First Mariner edition
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
A note on the text / Peter Davison -- Animal farm -- Appendix I: Orwell's proposed preface to Animal Farm -- Appendix II: Orwell's preface to the Ukrainian edition of Animal Farm.;George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture. It is the account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones's Manor Farm into Animal Farm--a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. Out of their cleverness, the pigs Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball emerge as leaders of the new community in a subtle evolution that proves disastrous. The climax is the brutal betrayal of the faithful horse Boxer, when totalitarian rule is reestablished with the bloodstained postscript to the founding slogan: But some Animals Are More Equal Than Others. ...
β¦ Subjects
A Fairy Story
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SUMMARY: Featuring a new preface, this classic satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government is once again brought to life for a new generation of readers. Reissue.
SUMMARY: Featuring a new preface, this classic satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government is once again brought to life for a new generation of readers. Reissue.
George Orwell's famous satire of the Soviet Union, in which "all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."