From Library Journal
This 50th-anniversary commemorative edition of Orwell''s masterpiece
is lavishly illustrated by Ralph Steadman. In addition, it contains
Orwell''s proposed introduction to the English-language version as
well as his preface to the Ukrainian text. Though all editions of
Animal Farm are equal, this one is more equal than others.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From AudioFile
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內容簡介：
Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell''s fable of a
workers'' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway''s The Old Man
and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It''s OK to Write a Book
Report About. The latter is three pages longer and less fun to
read. Fueled by Orwell''s intense disillusionment with Soviet
Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both
an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the
downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master
and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist
zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and
for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals''
Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the
barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear
clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature.
Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the
two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the
pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their
intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power.
"We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of
the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your
welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those
apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution,
cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence
and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and
exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm.
Satire Animal Farm may be, but it''s a stony reader who remains
unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to
his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the
pigs. Orwell''s view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the
history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air
of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson
關於作者：
Eric Arthur Blair George Orwell was born in India in 1903. He
was educated at Eton, served with the Indian Imperial Police in
Burma, and worked in Britain as a private tutor, schoolteacher,
bookshop assistant and journalist. In 1936, Orwell went to fight
for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and was wounded. In
1938 he was admitted into a sanatorium and from then on was never
fully fit. George Orwell died in London in 1950. --This text refers
to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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