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Animal Farm

By: George Orwell
Narrated by: Simon Callow
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Summary

Just as relevant today as it was when it was first published, this classic work of fiction is given a new lease of life through Simon Callow's imaginative narration. First-time listeners and Orwell veterans alike will delight in this audiobook version.

Animal Farm is George Orwell's great socio-political allegory set in a farmyard, where the animals decide to seize the farmer's land and create a co-operative that reaps the benefits of their combined labours.

However, as with all great political plans, some animals see a bigger share of the rewards than others, and the animals start to question their supposed utopia. They decide that working for humans is doing them no favours, so under the leadership of Napoleon, the only Berkshire Boar on the farm, and the other pigs, they drive out the farmer and his cohorts and set about structuring their own society.

Based on a list of supposedly animal-friendly rules such as "four legs good, two legs baaaaad", the animals work together to harvest their own food and run their own farm. However, little by little, the rules begin to mysteriously change, and the pigs seem to gain power little by little, making the animals question what society they were striving for in the first place and whether their new-found freedom is as liberating as they might have hoped.

With direct allusions to political figures such as Lenin, Marx, Trotsky, Stalin, and Molitov, to name but a few, Animal Farm is one of the greatest socio-political works of all time, and this UNABRIDGED audio does it absolute justice.

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Marvellous

Great narration and good length.

The story line is incredible although I really though the animals were going to rebel against the pigs in the end. Horrible horrible napoleon !

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A funny story

This book was quite entertaining.
Considering it's not very long.
I enjoyed the story and it's message.

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Does justice to Orwell's classic fable

First-rate narration (with some added radio play-style musical effects) of Orwells`s classic political fable, a tale that explains and satirizes the sequence of events that resulted in the Russian Revolution of October 1917 and which ultimately led to Stalin's totalitarian regime.

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Wonderfully read by Callow.

The classic allegory of political revolution and power play read brilliantly by Simon Callow. I would highly recommend this audiobook.

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A timeless classic

The fabulous narration by Simon Callow lends great pathos to Orwell's words. A wonderful, evocative book that should be compulsory reading for every school-child .

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Brilliant

Always a pleasure reading this book. Sadly very true to life in the struggle for equality.

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fast and easy

yes yes yes good book and good narators
good story
horse good
pig bad.

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Brilliant

Absolutely brilliant. Loved the story with its political undertones. Loved Simon Callow for his amazing narration. A perfect classic but the topics still relevant today.

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Classic

Very interesting and thought-provoking story that will unfortunately strike a chord with readers forever. one of the classics.

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A timeless and powerful rebuke of socialism

A timeless and powerful rebuke of socialism.

The facts are there for all to see that socialism has never worked and will never work, and Orwell’s seminal satire sets out why.

This is a book for the ages and one that still resonates many years later.

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