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Animal Farm

75th Anniversary Edition
By George Orwell
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Animal Farm is George Orwell's allegorical novel portraying a group of oppressed farm animals who overthrow their human owner in pursuit of a society based on equality and justice. However, their idealistic revolution quickly degenerates into a new tyranny, demonstrating the corrupting influence of power and the dangers of totalitarianism.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This classic is ideal for readers interested in political satire, history, and social commentary, as well as students studying themes of power and revolution.

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In this controversial classic fairy tale, 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, setting the stage for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned. Illustrations and Orwell's proposed but unpublished preface are included in this anniversary edition. Reissue.

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75th Anniversary Edition—Includes a New Introduction by Téa Obreht

George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire of 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780451526342

Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 April 2004

Country: United States

Imprint: Dutton / Signet

Contributors:

  • Afterword by Russell Baker
  • Introduction by Tea Obreht

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 106.0mm

Height: 191.0mm

Weight: 102g

Pages: 176

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About the Author

George Orwell (pseudonym for Eric Blair [1903-50]) was born in Bengal and educated at Eton; after service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, he returned to Europe to earn his living penning novels and essays. He was essentially a political writer who focused his attention on his own times, a man of intense feelings and intense hates. An opponent of totalitarianism, he served in the Loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War. Besides his classic Animal Farm, his works include a novel based on his experiences as a colonial policeman, Burmese Days, two firsthand studies of poverty, Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier, an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, Homage to Catalonia; and the extraordinary novel of political prophecy whose title became part of our language, 1984.

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