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Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition Mass market paperbound - 2004

by George Orwell; Preface by Russell Baker; Introduction by Tea Obreht

In this controversial classic fairy tale, 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, setting the stage for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned. Illustrations and Orwell's proposed but unpublished preface are included in this anniversary edition. Reissue.


Summary

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 (from publisher).

From the publisher

75th Anniversary Edition--Includes a New Introduction by Ta Obreht George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel--a scathing satire on 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.

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First Edition Identification

Secker and Warburg first published Animal Farm in London in 1945. With a print run of just 4,000 copies, the first edition is bound in green cloth and states “First Published May 1945” on the copyright page. The original green and grey dust jacket is famously fragile as it was cheaply produced to meet Wartime Economy Standards.

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  • Title Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition
  • Author George Orwell; Preface by Russell Baker; Introduction by Tea Obreht
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition 50th Anniversary
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Signet Book, New York, NY
  • Date 2004-04-06
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780451526342 / 0451526341
  • Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.4 x 4.1 x 0.5 in (18.80 x 10.41 x 1.27 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1170
  • Library of Congress subjects Animals, Political fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97815303
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 12/15/1997, Page 695
  • Newsweek, 02/23/2009, Page 14

About the author

George Orwell (pseudonym for Eric Blair [1903-50]) was born in Bengal and educated at Eton; after service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, he returned to Europe to earn his living penning novels and essays. He was essentially a political writer who focused his attention on his own times, a man of intense feelings and intense hates. An opponent of totalitarianism, he served in the Loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War. Besides his classic Animal Farm, his works include a novel based on his experiences as a colonial policeman, Burmese Days, two firsthand studies of poverty, Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier, an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, Homage to Catalonia; and the extraordinary novel of political prophecy whose title became part of our language, 1984.
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