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Overview

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Even if you read this in school, it's time to read it again. Under the cuddly guise of an animal society, the encroaching totalitarian state is not lost on the pigs and the hamsters of the world. It's an unexpectedly cautionary tale that's widely banned for a reason.

75th Anniversary Edition—Includes a New Introduction by Téa Obreht

George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism.

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“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned—a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.
 
When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780451526342
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 04/06/2004
Series: Signet Classics Series
Edition description: 50th Anniversary Edition
Pages: 176
Sales rank: 168
Product dimensions: 4.40(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.60(d)
Lexile: 1170L (what's this?)

About the Author

George Orwell (pseudonym for Eric Blair [1903-50]) was born in Bengal and educated at Eton; after service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, he returned to Europe to earn his living penning novels and essays. He was essentially a political writer who focused his attention on his own times, a man of intense feelings and intense hates. An opponent of totalitarianism, he served in the Loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War. Besides his classic Animal Farm, his 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 Catalonia; and the extraordinary novel of political prophecy whose title became part of our language, 1984.

Table of Contents

How to studyv
How to use this guideix
Key to iconsx
Background1
The story of Animal Farm5
Who's who?10
The main animal characters10
The other animals19
The humans21
Themes23
How to get to the top23
How to tell lies25
The uses of literacy28
Down with "isms"29
Language, style and structure32
Just words?32
Do we laugh?33
The structure of the novel34
The use of repetition35
Commentary37
Chapter 138
Chapter 241
Chapter 344
Chapter 448
Chapter 551
Chapter 655
Chapter 758
Chapter 862
Chapter 966
Chapter 1071
Topics for discussion and brainstorming77
How to get an "A" in English Literature79
The exam essay80
Model answer and essay plans81
Glossary of literary terms84
Index86
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