Animal Farm - George Orwell

I picked up this book as a part of my school english class.. Its easy to read, and quite short as well. This is the reivew i got A+! Thought i would post it here... :) Animal Farm is a fable based on the Russian Revolution. It was released on 17 August 1945 but it is still being read by millions of people worldwide. The book turns the piece of history into a fairy story where pigs get to dictate the farm which was supposed to be own by ALL animals. The Story The story begins when a prize-winning boar called Old Major, gathers every animal in the farm for a meeting and tells them about a dream he had. The dream is about getting rid of ...

...it was with these words, in February 1944, that George Orwell himself described the release of his latest book, a more belittling statement could not have been chosen to describe what was to become a stalwart of English political literature and the bane of students to this day. To quote from the author, “There is a farm, and the animals get fed up with the way the farmer runs it, so they chuck him out and try to run it themselves. But they run it just as badly as the farmer and become tyrants like him.” It one respect that does suffice as a summary of the plot as read at face value. A fairy tale story, straight out of Aesops fables. But this is George Orwell and there ...

Yes, theediscerning is aware 22 other people have already given their opinions about Animal Farm on this site, but there is always time for a reminder where these things lie. If you always have a nagging doubt that you never read enough of the really "important", "famous", "classic" literature, then you may as well resolve to get this from the library and peruse. It serves all those spurious categories mentioned - although it is only a modern classic, being published first in 1945, but at less than 2 hours to read, you can only come out of the experience feeling you have done something worthwhile. That feeling might, of ...