Animal Farm

75th Anniversary Edition--Includes a New Introduction by T a Obreht

George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel--a scathing satire on a downtrodden society's blind march towards totalitarianism.

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"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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Signet Book
Published: 04/06/2004
ISBN: 9780451526342
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 7.40h x 4.20w x 0.50d

Review Citations: Booklist 12/15/1997 pg. 695
Newsweek 02/18/2008 pg. 17
Newsweek 11/10/2008 pg. 59
Newsweek 02/23/2009 pg. 14

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 727 / Animal Farm
Reading Level: 7.3 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 5