Animal Farmby George Orwell | |
List(s): | "Racine Library List" "Carp 500" |
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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 |