Animal farm
Animal Farm is the most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories. Its account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind, can fairly be said to have become a universal drama. Orwell is one of the very few modern satirists comparable to Jonathan Swift in power, artistry, and moral authority; in animal farm his spare prose and the logic of his dark comedy brilliantly highlight his stark message
Print Book, English, 1996, ©1946
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Signet Classic/Penguin, New York, 1996, ©1946
Allegories
xxiii, 140 pages ; 18 cm
9780451526342, 9780606001021, 9780151072552, 0451526341, 0606001026, 0151072558
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