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Animal farm a fairy story

The animals of the farmyard rebel against Farmer Jones in the name of equality.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Orwell, George, 1903-1950 (Author)
Other Authors:	Baker, Russell, 1925-2019 (Writer of preface), Woodhouse, C. M. (Christopher Montague), 1917-2001 (Writer of introduction)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Signet Classics, [1996]
Subjects:	Soviet Union > In literature. Totalitarianism > Fiction. Domestic animals > Fiction. Satirical literature. Allegories.
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Summary:	The animals of the farmyard rebel against Farmer Jones in the name of equality. 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. -- Publisher description.
Physical Description:	xxvii, 141 pages ; 18 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9780452284241 0452284244 9780451526342 0451526341 9781439574454 1439574456 9780812415070 0812415078 9780881030075 0881030074 9781605120614 1605120618 1439573352 9781439573358
Author Notes:	George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair on June 25, 1903 in Motihari in Bengal, India and later studied at Eton College for four years. He was an assistant superintendent with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. He left that position after five years and moved to Paris, where he wrote his first two books: Burmese Days and Down and Out in Paris and London. He then moved to Spain to write but decided to join the United Workers Marxist Party Militia. After being decidedly opposed to communism, he served in the British Home Guard and with the Indian Service of the BBC during World War II. After the war, he wrote for the Observer and was literary editor for the Tribune. His best known works are Animal Farm and 1984. His other works include A Clergyman's Daughter, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, The Road to Wigan Pier, Homage to Catalonia, and Coming Up for Air. He died on January 21, 1950 at the age of 46. (Bowker Author Biography)