Animal FarmAnimal Farm
a Fairy Story
1st ed.
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Book, 1995
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A lavish gift edition celebrates the classic tale's fiftieth year of publication and features one hundred full-color and halftone illustrations that bring to life the satirical story of the Soviet Union.
A satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government
George Orwell’s famous satire of the Soviet Union, in which “all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”
<div><b>With extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity, George Orwell’s <i>1984 </i>takes on new life in this hardcover edition.</b><br><br> “Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—<i>The New Yorker</i><br>  <br> In <i>1984</i>, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.<br><br> Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece “<i>1984</i> is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell’s novel remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.</div>
A satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government
George Orwell’s famous satire of the Soviet Union, in which “all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”
<div><b>With extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity, George Orwell’s <i>1984 </i>takes on new life in this hardcover edition.</b><br><br> “Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—<i>The New Yorker</i><br>  <br> In <i>1984</i>, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.<br><br> Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece “<i>1984</i> is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell’s novel remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.</div>
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