Descriptions, Reviews, etc.
Description:
In this controversial classic fairy tale, 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, setting the stage for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned. Illustrations and Orwell's proposed but unpublished preface are included in this anniversary edition. Reissue.
Review Quotes: "Animal Farm remains our great satire on the darker face of modern history."
--Malcolm Bradbury
"As lucid as glass and quite as sharp...[
Animal Farm] has the double meaning, the sharp edge, and the lucidity of Swift."
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Atlantic Monthly "A wise, compassionate, and illuminating fable for our times."
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New York Times
"Orwell has worked out his theme with a simplicity, a wit, and a dryness that are close to La Fontaine and Gay, and has written in a prose so plain and spare, so admirably proportioned to his purpose, that Animal Farm even seems very creditable if we compare it with Voltaire and Swift."
--Edmund Wilson,
The New Yorker "Orwell's satire here is amply broad, cleverly conceived, and delightfully written."
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San Francisco Chronicle "The book for everyone and Everyman, its brightness undimmed after fifty years."
--Ruth Rendell
