A modern day fable, with modern implications in a deceiving
simplicity, by the author of Dickens. Dali and Others (Reynal &
Hitchcock, p. 138), whose critical brilliance is well adapted to
this type of satire. This tells of the revolt on a farm, against
humans, when the pigs take over the intellectual superiority,
training the horses, cows, sheep, etc., into acknowledging their
greatness. The first hints come with the reading out of a pig who
instigated the building of a windmill, so that the electric power
would be theirs, the idea taken over by Napoleon who becomes topman
with no maybes about it. Napoleon trains the young puppies to be
his guards, dickers with humans, gradually instigates a reign of
terror, and breaks the final commandment against any animal walking
on two legs. The old faithful followers find themselves no better
off for food and work than they were when man ruled them, learn
their final disgrace when they see Napoleon and Squealer carousing
with their enemies... A basic statement of the evils of
dictatorship in that it not only corrupts the leaders, but deadens
the intelligence and awareness of those led so that tyranny is
inevitable. Mr. Orwell's animals exist in their own right, with a
narrative as individual as it is apt in political parody. (Kirkus
Reviews)
One of a series of fiction titles for schools. In Orwell's classic
story the animals, led by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, drive out
Farmer Jones and set up an Animals' Republic in which all are to be
free and equal. But the saviours turn out to be just as greedy,
vain and oppressive.
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