LoveReading4Kids Says
LoveReading4Kids Says
Anthony McGowan, Guest Editor June 2015 chose Animal Farm as one of his favourite short novels...."Orwell’s story of a farmyard revolution is one of the very few parables that works on both levels: his animal characters are so wonderfully drawn we come to love (or hate) them, share in their dreams, aspirations, and feel for their ultimate betrayal. Add to that the wider truths it tells us about power and injustice, and we have one of the greatest books of the twentieth century. All in 144 pages …"
Animal Farm - the history of a revolution, under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Wellington leads to the animals taking over the farm but it all went wrong - is George Orwell's brilliant satire on the corrupting influence of power.
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Animal Farm Synopsis
This Scholastic Classics edition of George Orwell's classic
satire novel is perfect for students and Orwell enthusiasts
alike.
All animals are equal - but some are more equal than
others.
When the ill-treated animals of Manor Farm rebel against their
master Mr Jones and take over the farm, they start to believe in
a life of freedom and equality for all. But slowly, the egocentric
and ruthless Napoleon takes control and the animals are subjected
to force and violence from the corrupt elite - the pigs. As one
dictator is replaced with another, the idea of fairness and equality
for all becomes a distant memory.
Class, equality, power and control are some of the themes
that run throughout this novel.
- Studying this for GSCE? - check out Scholastic's
revision flashcards (9781407190198), study guide (9781407183435)
and guidebook for writing the best answers possible (9781407183992).
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About This Edition
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9780702306136 |
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7th January 2021 |
| Author: |
George Orwell |
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Scholastic |
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Paperback |
| Pagination: |
116 pages |
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Scholastic Ink Classics |
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Press Reviews
George Orwell Press Reviews
'It is the book for everyone and Everyman, its brightness undimmed after fifty years.' Ruth Rendell
'Animal Farm is a timeless satire on the central tragi-comedy of all politics--that is, the tragi-comedy of corruption by power.' Timothy Garton Ash
'Animal Farm has seen off all the opposition. It's as valid today as it was fifty years ago.' Ralph Steadman
'Remains our great satire of the darker face of modern history.' Malcolm Bradbury
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About George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (June 25, 1903 - January 21, 1950), much better known by the pen name George Orwell was a British author, journalist and socialist. George Orwell was born in Bengal, India, in 1903. Educated in England at Eton, he moved to Burma in 1922 where he joined the Indian Imperial Police for five years.
After a period doing a variety of jobs in France he returned to England where he opened a village shop. As a Marxist, Orwell was in danger of being murdered by communists in the Republican Army. With the help of the British Consul in Barcelona, Orwell was able to escape to France. Orwell published Coming up for Air in 1939.Noted as a political and cultural commentator, as well as an accomplished novelist, Orwell is among the most widely admired English-language essayists of the 20th century.
He is best known for two novels written towards the end of his short life: Animal Farm, a satire in fable form of the communist revolution in Russia, and Nineteen Eighty-Four, published in 1949, a pessimistic satire about the threat of political tyranny in the future. The novel had a tremendous impact and many of the new words and phrases used in the book passed into everyday language.
George Orwell died of tuberculosis in 1950.
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