Animal Farm

by George Orwell
List(s):"Racine Library List"
"Carp 500"
Category: "Fiction - S. F./Fantasy"
Pages:128
Year of Publication:1946
Date Read:01/29/1989
Notes:A political fable based on the events of Russia’s Bolshevik revolution and the betrayal of the cause by Joseph Stalin. The book concerns a group of barnyard animals who overthrow and chase off their exploitative human masters and set up an egalitarian society of their own. Eventually the animals’ intelligent and power-loving leaders, the pigs, subvert the revolution and form a dictatorship even more oppressive and heartless than that of the former human masters.

COMMENTS — George Orwell served in the Loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War. He was critical of Communism but was himself a Socialist.
My Rating: 7

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