| Record Number |
739286 |
| ISBN |
9780151010264 (hardback) |
| 9780141182704 (paperback) |
| 9780241453865 (hardback) |
| Author |
Orwell, George, 1903-1950 author. |
| Title |
Animal farm ; 1984 / George Orwell. |
| Publisher/Date |
Boston, MA : Houghton Miffin Harcourt, 2003. |
| ©1945 |
| Pagination etc. |
xiv, 385 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Contents note |
Animal farm first published: 1945 ; 1984 first published: 1949. |
| Summary Note |
Animal Farm: All animals are equals but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is the account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones's Manor Farm into Animal Farm, a wholly democratic society built on the credo that all animals are created equal. Out of their cleverness, the pigs Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball emerge as leaders of the new community in a subtle evolution that proves disastrous. The climax is the brutal betrayal of the faithful horse Boxer, when totalitarian rule is re-established with the bloodstained postscript to the founding slogan: but some animals are more equal than others. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. |
| 1984: Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls people's lives every second of the day. Alone in his small, one-room apartment, Winston dreams of a better life. Is freedom from this life of suffering possible? There must be something that the Party cannot control - something like love, perhaps. |
| Subject |
Domestic animals -- Fiction |
| Totalitarianism -- Fiction |
| Dystopias -- Fiction |
| Conspiracy -- Fiction |
| Farms -- Fiction |
| Livestock -- Fiction |
| Political corruption -- Fiction |
| Political fiction |
| Allegories |
| Satire |
| Shelf Location |
F ORWE |
