Animal farm : a fairy story / George Orwell.
By: Orwell, George.
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BookSeries: Penguin classics.Publisher: London : Penguin, 2000, c1987Edition: [New edition].Description: xxi, 120 p. ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0141182709 (pbk.) :; 9780141182704.Subject(s): Farms -- Fiction | Classic fiction | Livestock -- Fiction | Modern & contemporary fiction | Political corruption -- Fiction
| ClassicsGenre/Form: Allegories. | Classics.DDC classification: 823.91 ORW Summary: Having got rid of their human masters, the animals of Manor Farm look forward to a life of freedom and plenty. Orwell's allegoric story of the betrayal of idealism through tyranny and corruption is as fresh today as when it was first published in 1945.
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| 823.91 MAU Of human bondage / | 823.91 OCO Guests of the nation / | 823.91 ORW Animal farm : a fairy story / | 823.91 ORW Animal farm : a fairy story / | 823.91 TRE Sixpence in her shoe, and other stories / | 823.912 BEN Riceyman steps : a novel / | 823.912 BOW The collected stories of Elizabeth Bowen / |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another. Orwell's chilling 'fairy story' is a timeless and devastating satire of idealism betrayed by power and corruption.
Originally published: London: Secker & Warburg, 1945.
Having got rid of their human masters, the animals of Manor Farm look forward to a life of freedom and plenty. Orwell's allegoric story of the betrayal of idealism through tyranny and corruption is as fresh today as when it was first published in 1945.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
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)
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