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George Orwell's Animal Farm

(Barron's Book Notes)

By George Orwell, David Ball (Editor)

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780812034028

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George Orwell's Animal Farm is still a widely read satire of Stalinism. The novel, which was rejected several times before its publication in 1945, is the focus of Bloom's Notes. Along with a collection of some of the best criticism available on his work, this text includes a brief biography of the Continue

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

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Marti1589 said on May 27, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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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 about the Paperback edition | 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 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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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 about the Paperback edition | 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 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

A short story on rebellion and 'animalism'.
The pigs became the leader of the Manor Farm, but once power was conferred, pigs and human were no difference.
I like the classic English in the literature. Can't help re-reading many of the beautiful sentence structures.
　
"Is it not crys ... (continue)

A short story on rebellion and 'animalism'.
The pigs became the leader of the Manor Farm, but once power was conferred, pigs and human were no difference.
I like the classic English in the literature. Can't help re-reading many of the beautiful sentence structures.
　
"Is it not crystal clear that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings?"
"Bright will shine the fields of England,
Purer shall its waters be,
Sweeter yet shall blow its breezes
On the day that sets us free."
"The animals carried on as best they could with the rebuilding of the windmill, well knowing that the outside world was watching them and that the envious human beings would rejoice and triumph if the mill were not finished on time."
"Never had the farm… appeared to the animals so desirable a place"
"They took refuge in the farm buildings and peeped cautiously out from chinks and knot-holes."

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Candy said on Jan 6, 2012 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback