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Animal farm [electronic resource] / George Orwell.
George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture. Animal farm has been read and reread and quoted so often that we tend to forget who wrote the original words. It is an account of the bold struggle that transforms Mr. Jones' Manor Farm into Animal Farm--a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. Out of their cleverness, the pigs Napoleon, Squealer and Snowball emerge as leaders of the new community in a subtle evolution that bears an insidious familiarity. The climax is the brutal betrayal of the faithful horse Boxer, when totalitarian rule is re-established with the bloodstained postscript to the founding slogan: But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others ... Orwell's succinct, frightening words have been heard since 1946 as unsparingly descriptive of the fate of those who suffer totalitarian regimes. This audio edition of the masterpiece reminds us of Orwell's genius.
Record details
- ISBN: 0786143134 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 9780786143139 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 9781433287701 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1433287706 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- Publisher: [Ashland, Or.] : Blackstone Audio, [2007]
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Downloadable audio file.Title from: Title details screen.Unabridged.Duration: 3:11:46.
- Participant or Performer Note:
- Read by Richard Brown.
- System Details Note:
- Requires OverDrive Media ConsoleRequires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 45932 KB; MP3 file size: 90033 KB).Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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A satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government. - Findaway World Llc
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. When the animals of Mr. Jones's Manor Farm revolt against their human rulers, they establish 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.