Animal Farm and 1984

Hardcover, 385 pages

English language

Published Jan. 19, 2003 by Harcourt.

ISBN:
978-0-15-101026-4
Copied ISBN!
OCLC Number:
51817402

View on OpenLibrary

5 stars (2 reviews)

THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY of George Orwell's birth has brought these two groundbreaking novels together for the first time, along with a revealing new introduction by Christopher Hitchens.

ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is the account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones's Manor Farm into Animal Farm—a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. Out of their cleverness, the pigs Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball emerge as leaders of the new community in a subtle evolution that proves disastrous. The climax is the brutal betrayal of the faithful horse Boxer, when totalitarian rule is reestablished with the bloodstained postscript to the founding slogan: But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others.

WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. In 1984, London is a …

21 editions

Subjects

  • Domestic animals -- Fiction.
  • Totalitarianism -- Fiction.
  • London (England) -- Fiction.