出版社: Signet Classics
出版年: 1996-4-1
页数: 141
定价: USD 9.99
装帧: Mass Market Paperback
丛书: Signet Classics
ISBN: 9780451526342
内容简介 · · · · · ·
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, bo...
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 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.
目录 · · · · · ·
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
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6 有用 denovo 2005-11-25 05:08:06
赤裸裸地影射Trotsky和Stalin
0 有用 xiao 2010-11-29 22:40:03
速战速决。
2 有用 塔可夫斯基的镜子 2009-05-16 01:43:20
2007年6月29日 午饭后福州路上海外文图书公司
8 有用 半岛peninsula 2011-02-04 10:30:25
迄今为止看得最为顺畅的一本原版。或许是对于作者的写作背景、表达主题和风格太过了解吧。很高兴能在新年第一个星期就开了一个读原版的好头。另:奥威尔小说中的悲恸,我们还会体会多久。
2 有用 假仙女 2010-06-21 15:35:27
Some day it was coming: it might not be soon, it might not be within the lifetime of any animals now living, but still it was coming.
0 有用 livre 2011-12-28 11:49:42
恐怖的政治寓言&预言
0 有用 泰洛丹 2011-12-26 22:51:46
2011-10-13
0 有用 景罔两 2011-12-16 22:58:14
what a vivid description of the contemporary history and life of our country~~~
0 有用 Oannes 2011-12-13 21:34:42
第一次看原著,居然挑了這本.....我的差勁英語水平讓整個動物農場很混亂
5 有用 Little Beyonds 2011-11-28 01:54:13
我们都是被猪欺负的小马匹诶