{"product_id":"animal-farm-isbn-9780452284241","title":"Animal Farm","description":"\u003cb\u003e75th Anniversary Edition—Includes a New Introduction by Téa Obreht\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire of a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen \u003ci\u003eAnimal Farm\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith a foreword by Ann Patchett\u003c\/b\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAnimal Farm\u003c\/i\u003e remains our great satire on the darker face of modern history.” \u003cbr\u003e—Malcolm Bradbury\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“As lucid as glass and quite as sharp...[\u003ci\u003eAnimal Farm\u003c\/i\u003e] has the double meaning, the sharp edge, and the lucidity of Swift.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A wise, compassionate, and illuminating fable for our times.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Orwell has worked out his theme with a simplicity, a wit, and a dryness that are close to La Fontaine and Gay, and has written in a prose so plain and spare, so admirably proportioned to his purpose, that Animal Farm even seems very creditable if we compare it with Voltaire and Swift.” \u003cbr\u003e—Edmund Wilson, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Orwell’s satire here is amply broad, cleverly conceived, and delightfully written.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The book for everyone and Everyman, its brightness undimmed after fifty years.” \u003cbr\u003e—Ruth Rendell\u003cb\u003eGeorge Orwell\u003c\/b\u003e (pseudonym for Eric Blair [1903-50]) was born in Bengal and educated at Eton; after service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, he returned to Europe to earn his living penning novels and essays. He was essentially a political writer who focused his attention on his own times, a man of intense feelings and intense hates. An opponent of totalitarianism, he served in the Loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War. Besides his classic \u003ci\u003eAnimal Farm\u003c\/i\u003e, his works include a novel based on his experiences as a colonial policeman, \u003ci\u003eBurmese Days\u003c\/i\u003e, two firsthand studies of poverty, \u003ci\u003eDown and Out in Paris and London \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Road to Wigan Pier\u003c\/i\u003e, an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, \u003ci\u003eHomage to Catalonia\u003c\/i\u003e; and the extraordinary novel of political prophecy whose title became part of our language, \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Berkley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302912839909,"sku":"NP9780452284241","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780452284241.jpg?v=1767721602","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/animal-farm-isbn-9780452284241","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}