Animal Farm
By George Orwell; Russell Baker (Preface by)
(Plume, Paperback, 9780452277502, 128pp.)
Publication Date: June 1996
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback (December 2007), Audio Cassette (November 2004), Paperback (September 2004), Paperback (September 2004), Mass Market Paperback (April 1996), Hardcover (May 25, 1993), Hardcover (November 1990)
Categories: Classics
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Description
A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they embark on the creation of 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 fifty years ago, 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.
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