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Book · 1945 · Fiction

Animal Farm

George Orwell
Plume (Penguin Random House) · 128 pages
★ 8.9 editorial score

The animals drive out the farmer and run the place themselves, until the rules painted on the barn wall start changing. Orwell reduced the Russian Revolution to a fable no adult forgets.

Genre
SatirePolitical fictionRoman a clefPolitical
Medium
Novel
Subject
Russian RevolutionCommunismHuman naturePolitics
Time
1945

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Quote · 1933

“You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on-into the dustbin of history!”

Leon Trotsky
Quote · 1945

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

George Orwell
Quote · 1965

“They always say that, and what does it matter? A village betrays us, a village is burned. The point's made.”

Yuri Andreyevich Zhivago
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