Animal farm

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George Orwell wrote Animal Farm as a scathing satire of the Soviet Union under Stalin. Today, it remains a powerful fable about the nature of tyranny and corruption which applies for all ages.



In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. The Soviet Union had become Britain’s ally in the war against Nazi Germany, and criticism of Stalin’s brutal regime was either censored or discouraged. In any case, many intellectuals on the left still celebrated the Soviet Union, claiming that the terrors of its show trials, summary executions and secret police were either exaggerated or necessary. But, to Orwell, Stalin was always a “disgusting murderer” and he wanted to remind people of this fact in a powerful and memorable way. But how to do it? A political essay would never reach a wide enough audience; a traditional novel would take too long to write. Orwell hit on the inspired idea of combining the moralism of the traditional ‘beast fable’ with the satire of Gulliver’s Travels. A group of farmyard animals, led by the pigs, overthrow their human masters. Their revolution is inspired by high ideals: the farm will be run in the interests of its animals with no more slaughtering, plenty of food for all and comfort in retirement. But when Napoleon the pig takes command, he quickly corrupts their principles, creating a new tyranny worse than the old. Orwell wrote Animal Farm in the middle of the Second World War, but at first no publishers wanted to touch it. It was finally published in August 1945, once the war was over. This little book quickly became a seminal text in the emerging ‘cold war’ (a phrase that Orwell himself coined). It also became a site of that conflict itself, suffering various attempts to subvert or change its meaning. Today, Animal Farm remains a powerful fable about the nature of tyranny and corruption which applies for all ages. Our edition also includes the following essays: Shooting an Elephant; Charles Dickens; Inside the Whale; The Frontiers of Art and Propaganda; Literature and Totalitarianism; Fascism and Democracy; Patriots and Revolutionaries; Catastrophic Gradualism; Some Thoughts on the Common Toad; Why I Write; Writers and Leviathan

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Animal Farm

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Animal farm by george orwell author of 1984 one of britains most popular novels is a brilliant political satire and a powerful and affecting story of revolutions and idealism power and corruption all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others mr jones of manor farm is so Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 uur besteld, dinsdag in huis .. MEER INFO

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The thought police doublethink newspeak big brother 1984 itself these terms have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives they are central to our thinking about freedom and its suppression yet they were created by george orwell in 1949 as he conjured his dystopian vision o Uiterlijk 29 november in huis .. MEER INFO

Animal farm

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De dieren op een boerderij komen in opstand tegen hun meester de mens en nemen zelf de macht in handen de varkens die lang tevoren in het geheim hebben leren lezen en schrijven werpen zich op als de natuurlijke leiders van de revolutie zij staan immers op een hoger intellectueel peil dan Op voorraad. Voor 23:00 uur besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 januari 2021

Aantal pagina's: 256

Hoofdauteur: George Orwell

Hoofduitgeverij: Wordsworth Editions Ltd

Product breedte: 129 mm

Product hoogte: 19 mm

Product lengte: 198 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 122 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 17 mm

Verpakking lengte: 194 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 335 g

EAN: 9781840228038

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