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Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and 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 and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment 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 and 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 and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and 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 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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乔治·奥威尔（1903-1950）， 英国著名作家。主要作品有《动物农场》、《1984》等。
1903年出生于印度，1907年举家迁回英国，后因经济原因无力深造，被迫远走缅甸，参加帝国警察部队。终因厌倦殖民行径、痴迷写作而辞去公职，辗转回到欧洲，流亡伦敦、巴黎等地，一边深刻体验下层民众生活，一遍从事文学创作，有多部作品出版。1936年西班牙内战爆发，参加左翼组织，因重伤返回英国，但最终树立社会主义信念。1939年，二战爆发，积极参加反纳粹的活动。由于西班牙内战与二战的苦痛经历，对战争与和平、极权与民主、社会关怀与人类理想进行了深刻的思考。
1945年，著名的政治寓言小说《动物农场》出版。1949年，《1984》问世，在全球产生深远影响。作品入选多国中学生必读书目，被翻译成62种文字，总销量超过5000万册。
1950年，因肺病去世，年仅47岁。
Animal Farm是1996年由SignetClassics出版,作者[英]乔治·奥威尔。
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