Animal Farm[動(dòng)物莊園] 英文原版簡(jiǎn)介，目錄書(shū)摘
George Orwell's chilling fable of Soviet Russia's brutal dictatorship, Animal Farm brings to life in lucid, uncomplicated language the disastrous project of Russian Communism. This Penguin Modern classics edition includes an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury.
'All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others'
When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless élite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another.
'It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine,' wrote Orwell for the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945. Orwell wrote the novel at the end of 1943, but it almost remained unpublished; its savage attack on Stalin, at that time Britain's ally, led to the book being refused by publisher after publisher. Orwell's simple, tragic fable has since become a world-famous classic.
喬治·奧威爾，英國(guó)記者、小說(shuō)家、散文家和評(píng)論家。喬治·奧威爾一生短暫，但其以敏銳的洞察力和犀利的文筆審視和記錄著他所生活的那個(gè)時(shí)代，作出了許多超越時(shí)代的預(yù)言，被稱為 “一代人的冷峻良知”。其代表作有《動(dòng)物莊園》和《一九八四》。
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