Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780451526342)

75th Anniversary Edition--Includes a New Introduction by T饌 Obreht

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

"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.

Author: George Orwell
ISBN-10: 0451526341
ISBN-13: 9780451526342
Publisher: Signet Book
Language: English
Published: 04/06/2004
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.40h x 4.10w x 0.50d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.3
Point Value: 5
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 727 / Animal Farm


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 12/15/1997 pg. 695
Newsweek 02/18/2008 pg. 17
Newsweek 11/10/2008 pg. 59
Newsweek 02/23/2009 pg. 14