Animal Farm by George Orwell
	List Price:   $9.99 Unit Price:   $7.99 You Save:   $2.00 (20%) ISBN-10:   0451526341 ISBN-13:   9780451526342 Publisher:   Penguin Group (USA) Inc Series:   Signet Classics Ser. Edition:   Anniversary Category:   Classics, Young Adults Pub. Date:   April 1996 Pages:   144 Format:   Mass Market
Awards
1996  Hugo Awards (USA)  Winner!
Subjects
BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR) FICTION_POLITICAL
Description/Notes
A fantasy of world politics in which farm animals revolt to form a society in which everyone is meant to be equal. Animal Farm was George Orwell's satirical shot at the then-new totalitarianism of the left. It is so accurate that no one has been able to do it better or more effectively, or even come close. Who can forget 'All Animals Are Created Equal, But Some Are More Equal Than Others.' By putting wisdom in the mouths of animals, Orwell uses an age-old artifice and proves again how the pen can be mightier than the sword. George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Blair, an Englishman born in Bengal, India, and educated at Eton in England. After service with the British colonial Indian Imperial Police in Burma, he returned to Europe to earn his living writing novels and essays. Bitterly opposed to social injustice, political oppression, and verbal cant in every form, he was a socialist who attacked both capitalism and communism, a literary critic who savaged all that he saw as false to life as it was lived and reality as it was, and a novelist who merged his profound political concerns with superbly honed narrative artistry. Besides his classic Animal Farm, his major works include a novel based on his experiences as a colonial policeman, Burmese Days; two firsthand studies of poverty, Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier; an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, Homage to Catal