Screen Reading Supported商品の説明 内容紹介 George Orwell was an English novelist and journalist best known for writing Nineteen Eighty-Four, a novel about a badly oppressive and all around corrupt government. Orwell’s writing was often about social injustice and totalitarianism and Nineteen Eighty-Four is perhaps the most famous novel on the subjects. Other extremely famous works by Orwell include Animal Farm and Homage to Catalonia.This version of Orwell’s Animal Farm includes a table of contents. 著者について Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia. --このテキストは、kindle_edition版に関連付けられています。 出版社からのコメント 3 1-hour cassettes--このテキストは、kindle_edition版に関連付けられています。 レビュー “Animal Farm remains our great satire on the darker face of modern history.” –Malcolm Bradbury“As lucid as glass and quite as sharp…[Animal Farm] has the double meaning, the sharp edge, and the lucidity of Swift.” –Atlantic Monthly“A wise, compassionate, and illuminating fable for our times.” –New York Times“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.” –Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker“Orwell’s satire here is amply broad, cleverly conceived, and delightfully written.” –San Francisco Chronicle“The book for everyone and Everyman, its brightness undimmed after fifty years.” –Ruth RendellWith an Introduction by Julian Symons --このテキストは、kindle_edition版に関連付けられています。 AMAZON.COM 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--このテキストは、kindle_edition版に関連付けられています。 BOOK DESCRIPTION ANIMAL FARM was George Orwell's satirical shot at the then-new totalitarianism of the left. It is so accurate that no one has been able to do it better or more effectively, or even come close. Who can forget "All Animals Are Created Equal, But Some Are More Equal Than Others." By putting wisdom in the mouths of animals, Orwell uses an age-old artifice and proves again how the pen can be mightier than the sword.--このテキストは、kindle_edition版に関連付けられています。 続きを見る

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