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Animal Farm

By George Orwell

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| Paperback | 9780140126709

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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 Continue

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ANIMAL FARM BY GEORGE ORWELL (Harvill Secker £10.99) Orwell's immortal anti-Stalinist satire from 1945 can be read as 'a fairy story' (his own ironic subtitle) or as a warning against tyranny. The rebellious farm animals, sick of their harsh lives, e ... (read full critics)

dailymail published on Tue, 21 Sep 2010

Animal Farm

Animal Farm is easily the most famous work of political allegory ever written. The animals take over the running of a farm, and everything is wonderful for a while — until the pigs get out of hand. It is a brilliant description of what happens when t ... (read full critics)

dannyreviews published on Fri, 27 Aug 2010

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12 people find this helpful

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
Semplicemente geniale.

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Marti1589 said on May 27, 2008 | Add your feedback

5 people find this helpful

In this fairy story, as the author has defined it, like Aesop, Kipling, London, Orwell make the animals think and speak and behave like humans are used to do. The tale is written with great simplicity and also insuperable effectiveness. Brilliant, and after 50 years from its publication, always enjo ... (continue)

In this fairy story, as the author has defined it, like Aesop, Kipling, London, Orwell make the animals think and speak and behave like humans are used to do. The tale is written with great simplicity and also insuperable effectiveness. Brilliant, and after 50 years from its publication, always enjoyable and full of significance.

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Albe said on Feb 25, 2008 | Add your feedback

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Supremely brilliant!

The novella is about animals on a farm that free themselves from their human masters. At first they work hard, have equality and are happy. Soon, different classes form (pigs, dogs, the rest) and the farm takes on a communist flavour. From here on, Orwell takes the reader on a complete transition of ... (continue)

The novella is about animals on a farm that free themselves from their human masters. At first they work hard, have equality and are happy. Soon, different classes form (pigs, dogs, the rest) and the farm takes on a communist flavour. From here on, Orwell takes the reader on a complete transition of the farm from freedom to communism to communist-dictatorship. Since Orwell is using animals (instead of humans) he can create classes and gets away with some brilliant analogies. The book is tiny and takes only a few hours. Must read.

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Ashwin Nanjappa said on Oct 8, 2007 | Add your feedback

2 people find this helpful

Bello, peccato che ho paura degli animali parlanti!

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Oraz said on Apr 6, 2012 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

Cristina Rodríguez Pereira

I really like this book, because makes you thing a bit about the structure of the world. About how we accept everything without saying anything. About how a democracy can pass to be a tirany without us noticing.
It's a book a bit difficult to undertand because some of the words have to be looked at ... (continue)

I really like this book, because makes you thing a bit about the structure of the world. About how we accept everything without saying anything. About how a democracy can pass to be a tirany without us noticing.
It's a book a bit difficult to undertand because some of the words have to be looked at in the dicctionary and it has a lot of description. But the history compensates all this matters. When you have it in your hands you can't put it down.
I get it in the library of the faculty of Medicine and I'm not sure but I thing that there's more than one copy.
In conclusion, I really recommend this book to everybody. As I said before, maybe it's kind of difficult for a level 4, but if you really want to improve a bit of work won't kill.

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Rosemary Thwaite said on Jan 20, 2012 | Add your feedback

I love this book, one of the greatest classics of all time.
Orwell had an extraordinary ability to make the perfect parody of the politic totalitarianism.
At first, I was like "Stupid animals, why don't they realize how corrupted their sistem is" but then I looked at real life and "Oh wait...!"

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Gatto Nero said on Jan 9, 2012 | Add your feedback