num_pages: 128
description: Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned –a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible. When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.
language: English
title: Animal Farm
titlecomplete: Animal Farm
characters: Moses (Animal Farm), Muriel, Old Major, Clover, Snowball, Boxer, Napoleon, Squealer, Benjamin, Mr. Jones (Animal Farm), Mollie (Animal Farm)
genres: Classics, Fantasy, Dystopia, Novels, Read For School, School, Literature, Fiction, Science Fiction, Politics
ratings_count: 3693028
places: England
awards: awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, awardedAt: 1672560000000
name: Locus Award
category: Illustrated and Art Book, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Retro Hugo Award
category: Best Novella
publisher: Signet Classics