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Animal Farm

by George Orwell

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | May 25, 1993 | Hardcover

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Animal Farm is the most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories. Its account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind, can fairly be said to have become a universal drama. Orwell is one of the very few modern satirists comparable to Jonathan Swift in power, artistry, and moral authority; in animal farm his spare prose and the logic of his dark comedy brilliantly highlight his stark message.

Taking as his starting point the betrayed promise of the Russian Revolution, Orwell lays out a vision that, in its bitter wisdom, gives us the clearest understanding we possess of the possible consequences of our social and political acts.
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    Want a revolution, Comrade?

    Sunny

    9 days ago

    They say you cannot understand the first half of the twentieth century without reading Orwell. His essays are more or less part of the curriculum in post-secondary institutions. His intellectual honesty made him a venerated figure in a literate cosmos; so is it any wonder that many young aspiring writers (such as this humble reviewer) wish to claim him as their "hero"? Is it any wonder that people of all political stripes wish to claim him as "one of us"? I can vividly recall the day, not so long ago, when I read two of Orwell's many essays: "Reflections on Gandhi" and "Notes on Nationalism." I was but a youth of sixteen and as the saying goes, "it changed my life." Now at the age of nineteen, I have consumed all of Orwell's six novels, three books, and fifty essays. I wanted to be just like him, not in terms of his writing-style or prose, but in a sense of his intellectual honesty, his impartiality and his political scrupulousness. However, I am painfully aware that I cannot be like him - no one can. It is hard, no matter who strenuously one tries, one cannot be nearly as honest as he was.

    George Orwell's "Animal Farm" is undoubtedly his second most famous and esteemed work after his immortal novel, "Nineteen Eighty-Four." It is a novella of a revolution lost, a revolution betrayed. It is a work of power and how gets around it. The animals longed for freedom. As their fiercely patriotic poem went:

    Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland
    Beasts of every land and clime
    Hearken to my joyful tidings
    Of the future golden time

    After having a revolution and becoming the masters of their own fate, animals thought they would live a happy, taciturn and tranquil life without human interference. Just as all revolutions promise, they will have "Heaven on Earth." The final result was slightly different than what you may have imagined. Soon they will find (or at least Benjamin, the donkey will) that they have become their own worst enemies.

    George Orwell wrote "Animal Farm" as a satire of the Russian Revolution. But is a work that can be applied to all revolutions (probably with the exceptions of the English Civil War, Glorious Revolution of 1688-89 and the American Revolution). Every revolution, it seems, will produce a Napoleon.

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    E. Guest

    3 months ago

    Check out my review of Orwell's work on my blog: http://8bookcases.blogspot.com/2012/02/animal-farm-by-george-orwell.html

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    Rating: 1/5

    Painful Read

    dmlavallee

    5 months ago

    This book was so slow, painful and boring to read. Serious waste of time. Not even worth my time to write a more detailed review.

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    Tim Balaz

    13 years ago

    This book provides great insight into the Russian revolution and the Early period in the Soviet Union. Through symbolism, Orwell is able to ilustrate the conditions and main players in Russian politics, in a way for all to easily understand and follow.

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    Great read!

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'Animal Farm' is the most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories, and its account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master and the submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind can fairly be said to have become a universal drama for our time.

From the Publisher

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

Animal Farm is the most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories. Its account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind, can fairly be said to have become a universal drama. Orwell is one of the very few modern satirists comparable to Jonathan Swift in power, artistry, and moral authority; in animal farm his spare prose and the logic of his dark comedy brilliantly highlight his stark message.

Taking as his starting point the betrayed promise of the Russian Revolution, Orwell lays out a vision that, in its bitter wisdom, gives us the clearest understanding we possess of the possible consequences of our social and political acts.

From the Jacket

"Animal Farm remains our great satire on the darker face of modern history." -Malcolm Bradbury

"As lucid as glass and quite as sharp…[Animal Farm] has the double meaning, the sharp edge, and the lucidity of Swift." -Atlantic Monthly

"A wise, compassionate, and illuminating fable for our times." -New York Times

"Orwell has worked out his theme with a simplicity, a wit, and a dryness that are close to La Fontaine and Gay, and has written in a prose so plain and spare, so admirably proportioned to his purpose, that Animal Farm even seems very creditable if we compare it with Voltaire and Swift." -Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker

"Orwell's satire here is amply broad, cleverly conceived, and delightfully written." -San Francisco Chronicle

"The book for everyone and Everyman, its brightness undimmed after fifty years." -Ruth Rendell

With an Introduction by Julian Symons

About the Author

George Orwell was born Eric Hugh Blair in 1903 in Motihari in Bengal, India and later studied at Eton for four years. Orwell was an assistant superintendent with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. He left the position after five years and then moved to Paris, where he wrote his first two books, Burmese Days and Down and Out In Paris. Orwell then moved to Spain to write but decided to join the United Workers Marxist Party Militia. After being decidedly opposed to communism, Orwell served in the British Home Guard and with the Indian Service of the BBC during World War II. He started writing for the Observer and was literary editor for the Tribune. Soon after he published the world-famous book, Animal Farm, which became a huge success for Orwell. It was then towards the end of his life when Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four. George Orwell died on January 23, 1950 in London.

Hardcover

160 Pages, 5.13 x 8.3 x 0.61 IN

May 25, 1993

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group


0679420398
9780679420392

From the Critics

"Animal Farm remains our great satire on the darker face of modern history." -Malcolm Bradbury

"As lucid as glass and quite as sharp…[Animal Farm] has the double meaning, the sharp edge, and the lucidity of Swift." -Atlantic Monthly

"A wise, compassionate, and illuminating fable for our times." -New York Times

"Orwell has worked out his theme with a simplicity, a wit, and a dryness that are close to La Fontaine and Gay, and has written in a prose so plain and spare, so admirably proportioned to his purpose, that Animal Farm even seems very creditable if we compare it with Voltaire and Swift." -Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker

"Orwell's satire here is amply broad, cleverly conceived, and delightfully written." -San Francisco Chronicle

"The book for everyone and Everyman, its brightness undimmed after fifty years." -Ruth Rendell

With an Introduction by Julian Symons

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