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Animal Farm: A Fairy Story Anniversary Edition
Contributor(s): Orwell, George (Author)

ISBN: 0151002177 ISBN-13: 9780151002177
Publisher: Mariner Books Classics

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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 1996
Annotation: Since its publication fifty years ago, Animal Farm has become one of the most controversial books ever written. It has been translated into seventy languages and sold millions of copies throughout the world. This edition is being published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of its original U.S. publication. It features 100 full-color and halftone illustrations by world-renowned artist Ralph Steadman. As vital and relevant as it was fifty years ago, Animal Farm is a devastating satire of the Soviet Union by the man V. S. Pritchett called "the conscience of his generation". A fable about an uprising of farm animals against their human masters, it illustrates how new tyranny replaces old in the wake of revolutions and power corrupts even the noblest of causes. This anniversary edition includes Orwell's proposed but unpublished preface to the original edition and his preface to the 1947 Ukranian edition. These appendices evoke the historical context in which Orwell conceived and wrote his classic novel.

Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Political
- Fiction | Dystopian

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 96143477

Age Level: 14-UP

Grade Level: 9-UP

Lexile Measure: 1170(Not Available)

Physical Information: 0.81" H x 7.87" W x 9.98" L (1.76 lbs) 192 pages

Features: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product

Awards: Hugo Award, Winner, Novelette, 1946

Review Citations: Library Journal 03/15/1996 pg. 100
Library Journal 03/01/1996

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 727
Reading Level: 7.3 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 5.0

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:
With extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity, George Orwell's 1984 takes on new life in this hardcover edition.

"Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power."--The New Yorker

In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.

Lionel Trilling said of Orwell's masterpiece "1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present." Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell's novel remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.

Contributor Bio(s): Orwell, George: - GEORGE ORWELL (1903-1950) was born in India and served with the Imperial Police in Burma before joining the Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. Orwell was the author of six novels as well as numerous essays and nonfiction works.

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