Animal Farm (Signet Classics) (英语) 简装 – 1996年4月1日

乔治·奥威尔 (George Orwell) (作者), Russell Baker (前言)

基本信息

出版社: Signet Classics; 50th Anniversary (1996年4月1日)

外文书名: 动物庄园

丛书名: Signet Classics

简装: 176页

语种： 英语

ISBN: 0451526341

条形码: 9780451526342

商品: 11 x 17 x 0.9 cm

商品重量: 86 g

编辑

Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master take over management of the l, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management organisation of the farm depend on us. Day night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commments to excuse their violence greed, the common animals are once again left hungry exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson 

名人

From Library Journal

This 50th-anniversary commemorative edition of Orwell's masterpiece is lavishly illustrated by Ralph Steadman. In addition, it contains Orwell's proposed introduction to the English-language version as well as his preface to the Ukrainian text. Though all editions of Animal Farm are equal, this one is more equal than others.

Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. 

From AudioFile

This is a delightful audio presentation! Acclaimed British actor Timothy West brings to life this well-known tale of revolution on a British farm by the animals, a satire of the former communist regime in the former Soviet Union. Orwell's text is at times tiresome, but the audio presentation never drags. West's presentation of the various characters is great--pigs, horses, mules, chickens--even bleating lambs. West also sings, in his best revolutionary voice, "Beasts of Engl." The only drawback to the audio presention is that there can be no footnotes; Orwell's Britishisms the various references to communism go by unexplained. Despite this drawback, the meaning of the tale is clear. M.L.C. Winner of AUDIOFILE's Earphones Award. (c)AudioFile, Portl, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 

《動物農場》中的壹群動物成功地進行了壹場“”，將壓榨他們的人類東家趕出農場，建立起壹個平等的動物社會。然而，動物，那些聰明的豬們zui終卻篡奪了的果實，成爲比人類東家加極權的統治者。“多壹個人看奧威爾，就多了壹分自由的保障，”有論家如是說。

 About the Author

George Orwell(1903-1950) was born in India served with the Imperial Police in Burma, fought with the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, was a member of the Home Guard a writer f 英文原版 Animal Farm动物农场庄园 George Orwell 乔治奥威尔 电子书 下载 mobi epub pdf txt

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