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Animal farm / George Orwell ; illustrated by Joy Batchelor and John Halas.

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • Physical Description: 155 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
  • Edition: Illustrated edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Harcourt, Brace, 1954.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the fable reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union.
Target Audience Note:
1170L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.3 5 727.
Subject:
Farms > Fiction.
Farm animals > Fiction.
Domestic animals > Fiction.
Totalitarianism > Fiction.
Government, Resistance to > Fiction.
Socialism > Fiction.
Dictatorship > Fiction.
Genre:
Political fiction.
Satirical literature.
Fables.

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  • 22 of 26 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Caswell County Public Library.

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