Animal Farm

Author: (English) Orwell
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Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Ranked 9th on France's "Le Monde" magazine's list of the greatest books in human history, and selected as "The Ten Books That Influenced My Growth" by 7,548 outstanding students from 15 renowned universities in Europe and America. They say: Animal Farm taught me the spirit of freedom! The animals on a farm, unable to bear their owner's oppression, rise up in rebellion under the leadership of two pigs, drive out the farm owner, and establish their own paradise. Here, they adhere to the principle that "all animals are equal." However, the two leading pigs fight for power, the farm's principles are repeatedly altered, the pigs gradually appropriate the labor of the other animals, and become a new privileged class. Autocracy and tyranny once again take hold in Animal Farm, and the animals return to their former miserable state.