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Animal farm : a fairy story / by George Orwell ; with an introduction by C. M. Woodhouse.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Orwell, G.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Orwell, George, 1903-1950.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Domestic animals--Fiction.
- Domestic animals.
- Totalitarianism--Fiction.
- Totalitarianism.
- Satire, English.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (autograph) (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 128 pages ; 18 cm
- Manufacture:
- 1958.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New American Library, 1956.
- Summary:
- The animals in the farmyard decide that working for humans is doing them no favours, so under the leadership of Napoleon, the only Berkshire Boar on the farm, and the other pigs, they drive out the farmer and his cohorts and set about structuring their own society. Based on a list of supposedly animal-friendly rules such as "four legs good, two legs bad" the animals work together to harvest their own food and run their own farm. However, little by little, the rules begin to mysteriously change and the pigs seem to gain power little by little, making the animals question what society they were striving for in the first place and whether their new-found freedom is as liberating as they might have hoped. With direct allusions to political figures such as Lenin, Marx, Trotsky, Stalin and Molitov, to name but a few, Animal Farm is one of the greatest socio-political works of all time.
- Notes:
- Second printing: August 1958.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- OCLC:
- 926112088
- Publisher Number:
- D1615 Signet Books
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