Animal Farm

De: George Orwell

Narrado por: Ralph Cosham

George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture, quoted so often that we tend to forget who wrote the original words. It is an account of the bold struggle that transforms Mr. Jones' Manor Farm into Animal Farm, a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. Out of their cleverness, the pigs Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball emerge as leaders of the new community in a subtle evolution that bears an insidious familiarity. The climax is the brutal betrayal of the faithful horse Boxer, when totalitarian rule is re-established with the bloodstained postscript to the founding slogan: But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others.To supplement the full text version of George Orwell's Animal Farm, listen to the SparkNotes Guide for Animal Farm.©1946 Harcourt Brace and Jovanich, Inc. (P)1991 Blackstone Audiobooks

Reseñas de la Crítica

"A wise, compassionate, and illuminating fable of our times....The steadiness and lucidity of Orwell's merciless wit are reminiscent of Anatole France and even of Swift." (The New York Times Book Review)

Great book!

One of my favorite books of all time, this book is an absolute classic. Makes me wonder what would have happened if Snowball (Trotsky) had been put in charge instead of Napoleon (A.K.A. Stalin).?.

The more things change . . .

Orwell's classic is sharp sighted. Society, economy, and politics all wonderfully and pointedly welded into a tale where subtext is more important than the tale itself.

A classic relevant to the world today.

the story is written exquisitely and read so well. I enjoyed hearing the unabridged book as the characters came to life (pun) and took form. The story is relevant to yesterday and today. A lesson for all.

Classic

I’ve been wanting to revisit this classic for awhile. Very apropos for the current times. I found the play on memory and leadership messaging by Squeler especially revealing.

wow....

this has always been on my to read list. Finally read it and wow if this isn't relevant to today's world I don't know what is.

Great Everything

I love the narrator, love the story, and continue to adore George Orwell's magnificent imagination.

Basically 1984: the allegory.

This book was, for lack of a better term, just an abridged version of 1984. That's not to detract from it, though. Both were excellent in their own way, and I enjoyed both equally. It was significantly shorter than I remember it being in high school though, but every bit as good. It's a deep dive into (what I believe to be) communism and (dys/u)topian societies. Bad living conditions lead to rebellion, the leaders seem altruistic at first only to impose more and more rules and altering history to a point where the citizens are eventually worse off than before. An excellent book and a must read.

Orwell saw the future

We all had to read this book as HS students, but I'm sure we didn't grasp why the teacher made us read it at the time. You really don't understand this book until you have lived a little and experienced the real sociology of society and its leaders. This story is simply how tyrannical societies are built. If its the evolution of Marxism to Communism or McCarthyism bleeding into modern day politics, Orwell nailed it on the head. Or maybe he just remembered that a forgotten history is doomed to repeat itself.

Applicable.

Teach this in schools. A cautionary tale of big government, totalitarianism and the like. Orwell has written a bedtime story that we should recite to our children.

Amazing Analogy

The astute insight of Orwell into human nature is so keen. Time changes but truth and wisdom do not. This is a classic whose time is now!