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)
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'It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine', wrote Orwell for the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945. Orwell wrote it at the end of 1943, but it almost remained unpublished. Its savage attack on Stalin, at that time Britain's ally, led to it being refused by publisher after publisher. Orwell's simple, tragic fable, telling what happens when the animals drive out Mr Jones and attempt to run the farm themselves, has since become a world-famous classic.
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