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Animal Farm

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Animal Farm

By: George Orwell
Narrated by: Simon Callow
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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.

©1945 George Orwell Estate (P)2009 CSA Word
Classics Dystopian Fiction Genre Fiction Political Science Fiction Thought-Provoking Funny

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The reading is a work of theatre far from being flatly read, the book was read with different voices and intonation to show each character.
The parallels with reality revolt me from my very guts.
A classic, for a reason.

Gave me shivers

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When I was younger, Animal Farm was always taught as an allegory of communism.
Revisiting it after many years I can’t be the only person who thinks that it’s actually a prescient and accurate allegory of fake news and Brexit.

An allegory - but not as we know it

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Perfect for a school classroom to help shutdown the commie pigs destroying western values and morals.

Perfect

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Excellent. Simon Callow was a superb choice of reader. His delivery and character voices were spot on. Really enjoyed this reading.

Superb.

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This is a great narration about the desire for true communism and its success in early days of the liberated farm; however, these days are sadly turned around to become a time of oppression lead through tyranny. It is amazing to see such a mental picture of a reality we can all see happening in our lives, in many nations from West to East. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to learn more about the intent of the heart for equality but the distortion and manipulation of this for self gain by a select few.

A great picture!

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