Animal Farm

By: George Orwell

Published May 6th 2003 by NAL (first published August 17th 1945)

Category: Biography

Pages: 122 pages

ISBN: 9780452284241

Description:
George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novelÑa scathing satire on a downtrodden societyÕs blind march towards totalitarianism.

ÒAll animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.Ó

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 pennedÑa 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 OrwellÕs masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.