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Animal Farm: A Fairy Story
by: George Orwell

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781857151503
ISBN: 185715150X
Label: Everyman's Library
Manufacturer: Everyman's Library
Number Of Pages: 116
Publication Date: May 20, 1993
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Studio: Everyman's Library
Sales Rank: 96186

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- No animal may drink alcohol "to excess"
A fairy tale or a nightmare? It all began with a dream by Major, a Middle White boar, of equality, and freedom from oppression. Maybe not in our life comrade, but eventually.

The dream brings a song. Intolerable conditions lead to revolution. As time passes things change; not exactly as planned.

There are two striking parts to this tale that stand out. First when Boxer is sent to the hospital and Benjamin reads the side of the van "Horse Slaughterer." Secondly there was a party in the farm house as the pigs were playing cards with the men, two aces of spades showed up. An argument ensues. Then a realization was drawn by the creatures outside looking in as they "...looked from pig to man, and man to pig, and from pig ... Read More:

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- A book everyone should read
A simple but stunning allegory that explodes the myth of benign proletariat rule and demonstrates the corrupting influence of power.
It has rightly been seen as a commentary of Stalin's Soviet regime, but it could reflect any number of tyrant regimes throughout the world which imposes authoritarian rule on the general citizenry "for the good of the people".

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- Excellent thoughts and content.
This has to be one of the best books I have ever read in my life. Orwell vividly describes a behind the scenes look at communism and socialism. I have never seen this kind of interpetation in any of the books I have read. Kudos to Orwell for a classic masterpiece.

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- A great satirical allegory.
On 7th November 1917, lead by the Marxist philosopher Vladimir Ilych Lenin, who promised an immediate end to Russia's participation in a "bosses war", the Bolsheviks staged a successful coup d'etat in Russia. There followed three years of civil war during which time the White Russian army tried to overthrow the newly installed communist government.

Meanwhile there was unrest among the animals on Manor Farm. Old Major the prize Middle White Boar had had a vision. Before he death he spoke vigorously against the unfairness he perceived in the lives of the animals on the farm under the oppression of Man. He too foresaw a revolution.

In 1924 Lenin's death gave way to a new power struggle between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. ... Read More:

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