Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - Softcover
Manor Farm is like any other English farm, expect for a drunken owner, Mr Jones, incompetent workers and oppressed animals. Fed up with the ignorance of their human masters, the animals rise up in rebellion and take over the farm. Led by intellectually superior pigs like Snowball and Napoleon, the animals how to take charge of their destiny and remove the inequities of their lives. But as time passes, the realize that things aren't happening quite as expected. Animal Farm is, one level, a simple story about barnyard animals. On a much deeper level, it is a savage political satire on corrupted ideals, misdirected revolutions and class conflict-themes as valid today as they were sixty years ago.
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About the Author:
GEORGE ORWELL was the pen name of an Englishman named Eric Blair. He was born in Bengal in 1903, educated at Eton, and after service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, returned to Europe to earn his living writing novels and essays. He was essentially a political writer who wrote of his own times, a man of intense feelings and fierce hates. He hated totalitarianism, and served in the Loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War. He was critical of communism but considered himself a Socialist. He hated intellectuals, although he was a literary critic. He hated cant and lying and cruelty in life and in literature. He died at forty-seven of a neglected lung aliment, leaving behind substantial body of work, a growing reputation for greatness, and the conviction that modern man was inadequate to cope with the demands of his history
Review:
''A wise, compassionate, and illuminating fable of our times . . . The steadiness and lucidity of Orwell's merciless wit are reminiscent of Anatole France and even of Swift.'' --New York Times Book Review
''Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works.'' --Amazon.com, editorial review
''A modern day fable, with modern implications in a deceiving simplicity . . . Orwell's animals exist in their own right, with a narrative as individual as it is apt in political parody.'' --Kirkus Reviews
''Absolutely first-rate . . . comparable to Voltaire and Swift.'' --New Yorker
''There is a timeless, even transcendent quality to this little story.'' --Christopher Hitchens, New York Times bestselling author
''Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works.'' --Amazon.com, editorial review
''A modern day fable, with modern implications in a deceiving simplicity . . . Orwell's animals exist in their own right, with a narrative as individual as it is apt in political parody.'' --Kirkus Reviews
''Absolutely first-rate . . . comparable to Voltaire and Swift.'' --New Yorker
''There is a timeless, even transcendent quality to this little story.'' --Christopher Hitchens, New York Times bestselling author
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- PublisherPenguin Books Ltd
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 014118809X
- ISBN 13 9780141188096
- BindingPaperback
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