Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books.
Loading... Animal Farm (original 1945; edition 1996)by George Orwell, Russell Baker (Preface)
Work InformationAnimal Farm by George Orwell (1945)
Best Dystopias (6) » 127 more Favourite Books (18) BBC Big Read (4) 1940s (1) Best Satire (1) Folio Society (11) Favorite Childhood Books (379) Short and Sweet (4) Books Read in 2016 (64) BBC Big Read (15) Carole's List (24) Five star books (113) Ambleside Books (128) Books Read in 2021 (203) Overdue Podcast (4) Books Read in 2020 (310) Top Five Books of 2013 (993) Didactic Fiction (1) Books Read in 2014 (207) 100 World Classics (26) Books Read in 2013 (152) Books Read in 2018 (739) Read (32) Childhood Favorites (168) Books Read in 2008 (25) Revolutions (2) BBC Top Books (4) Books Read in 2017 (3,556) Fake Top 100 Fiction (35) Política - Clásicos (37) 2014 (3) Year 9 Reading List (12) Books to buy (1) Pageturners (17) My Favourite Books (23) Books Read in 2001 (148) Daria (3) Books tagged favorites (272) aijowenuwaneaw (4) Generation Joshua (40) in pursuit of power (11) scav (47) Delete This List (14) To Read (1) Banned Books (4) Tagged Cold War (2) Libertarian Books (85) Unread books (975) Best Fantasy Novels (790) Loading...
Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Great book! ( ) Representation: N/A Trigger warnings: Animal death, murder, grief and loss depiction Score: Nine points out of ten. I own this book. Find this review on The StoryGraph. So I finally read Animal Farm. When I found it at a library, I initially didn't want to read it, so I put it off for a while, but I could now order a copy for myself. So I did. Soon enough, Animal Farm arrives and I immediately had to pick it up and read it. When I finished it, it was one of my favourite novels. Who knew one of the last novels I read in 2023 was outstanding? It starts with the first characters I see (the author introduced to me them all at once) like Old Major who, in the opening pages, convinces the other animals to revolt against the farmers who oppressed them for so long. His efforts were successful as the animals rioted at Manor Farm, expunge the owners and rename it to Animal Farm (hence the title.) Once they did, Snowball took over and established a new ideology: Animalism (which sounds like Communism.) Here's where Animal Farm shines: All the characters are allegories for historical figures and some events reflect the ones that happened in real life. It's such a brilliant fictional work, not to mention Animal Farm is a satire that works despite its lack of humour (because everything is an exaggeration.) Toward the latter half, Napoleon quietly takes over Animal Farm from Snowball by spreading propaganda and subtly changing the rules until they are a far cry from what they originally were. The ending was shocking as one dictatorship of farmers replaced another (an elite group of pigs ruling over other animals.) How chilling. Belongs to Publisher SeriesArion Press (99) Biblioteca Folha (14) Blackbirds (1993.3) — 39 more Clube de Literatura Clássica (CLC) (40.1 [August 2023]) Delfinserien (45) Destinolibro (23) Fischer Bücherei (216) Gallimard, Folio (1516) Grote ABC (126) Llibres a mà (7) Gli Oscar [Mondadori] (102) Penguin Audiobooks (PEN 252) Penguin Books (838) Penguin Clothbound Classics (2021) Penguin English Library, 2012 series (2018-06) Penguin Modern Classics (838) RBA Narrativa Actual (10) Signet Classics (CW1028) Stichting De Roos (155) Volk und Welt Spektrum (261) Áncora y Delfín (413) Is contained inHas the adaptationIs abridged inInspiredHas as a studyHas as a commentary on the textHas as a student's study guideHas as a teacher's guideAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
Classic Literature.
Fiction.
HTML: George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution has become an intimate part of our contemporary culture, with its treatment of democratic, fascist, and socialist ideals through an animal fable. The animals of Mr. Jones' Manor Farm are overworked, mistreated, and desperately seeking a reprieve. In their quest to create an idyllic society where justice and equality reign, the animals of Manor Farm revolt against their human rulers, establishing the democratic Animal Farm under the credo, "All Animals Are Created Equal." Out of their cleverness, the pigs??Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball??emerge as leaders of the new community. In a development of insidious familiarity, the pigs begin to assume ever greater amounts of power, while other animals, especially the faithful horse Boxer, assume more of the work. The climax of the story is the brutal betrayal of Boxer, when totalitarian rule is reestablished with the bloodstained postscript to the founding slogan: "But Some Animals Are More Equal than Others." This astonishing allegory, one of the most scathing satires in literary history, remains as fresh and relevant as the day it was published No library descriptions found.
|
Current DiscussionsNonePopular covers
Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.912Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1901-1945LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. Penguin Australia3 editions of this book were published by Penguin Australia. Editions: 0141182709, 0141036133, 014139305X Recorded BooksAn edition of this book was published by Recorded Books. |