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75th Anniversary Edition--Includes a New Introduction by Téa Obreht

George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel--a scathing satire of a downtrodden society's blind march towards totalitarianism.

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned--a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.

When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell's masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Editor's Note(p. vii)
• Introduction(p. 1)
• Northrop Frye Orwell and Marxism(p. 3)
• Robert A. Lee Animal Farm(p. 7)
• Richard I. Smyer Animal Farm: the Burden of Consciousness(p. 25)
• Bernard Crick the Making of Animal Farm(p. 29)
• Daphne Patai Political Fiction and Patriarchal Fantasy(p. 45)
• Patrick Reilly the Utopian Shipwreck(p. 61)
• Robert Solomon Ant Farm: an Orwellian Allegory(p. 91)
• Laraine Fergenson George Orwell's Animal Farm: a Twentieth-Century Beast Fable(p. 109)
• V.C: Letemendia Revolution on Animal Farm: Orwell's Neglected Commentary(p. 119)
• Michael Peters 'Animal Farm' Fifty Years On(p. 131)
• Chronology(p. 135)
• Contributors(p. 139)
• Bibliography(p. 141)
• Acknowledgments(p. 143)
• Index(p. 145)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair on June 25, 1903 in Motihari in Bengal, India and later studied at Eton College for four years. He was an assistant superintendent with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. He left that position after five years and moved to Paris, where he wrote his first two books: Burmese Days and Down and Out in Paris and London. He then moved to Spain to write but decided to join the United Workers Marxist Party Militia. After being decidedly opposed to communism, he served in the British Home Guard and with the Indian Service of the BBC during World War II. After the war, he wrote for the Observer and was literary editor for the Tribune.

His best known works are Animal Farm and 1984. His other works include A Clergyman's Daughter, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, The Road to Wigan Pier, Homage to Catalonia, and Coming Up for Air. He died on January 21, 1950 at the age of 46.

(Bowker Author Biography)