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.
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.
这是我近年来读过的最觉得值得读的一本书。也是在知乎上的一个问题,你最相见恨晚的一本书,很多人提到了这本。 《动物庄园》写于1943年,但七十年过去了,书中的描述一样在天朝,在世界各国上演着~不能不说,这是一部伟大的著作。 动物们一起努力奋斗,打倒琼斯...
评分今天花一下午的时间,把 乔治.奥威尔 文坛著名政治讽喻小说读完了!短短的100多页的 一个类似童话寓言故事,把一个极权统治发展的历程淋漓尽致的展现我的面前。 其中很多道理原来在脑子里都模模糊糊的想过,读完以后才证实了自己的很多想法!!! 动物庄园这个故事 简单代...
评分 评分和想象中的终极恐怖的《一九八四》不同,乔治·奥威尔的成名作《动物农场》则要生动直接得多,是对当时现实,尤其是苏联的深刻反映和辛辣讽刺,可谓一部另类的苏联历史(革命到二战末期)。 这部只有六万字的小说,我们可以非常清晰的把其中的角色和故事与苏联的各阶级群体与历...
以动物喻人,不至于像《一九八四》读得压抑,却又常常对应现实。
评分sigh...看了心里不好受
评分sigh...看了心里不好受
评分大毛帝国就是看这本书建起来的吧。。。
评分火车上读完的 大家应该都很熟悉了 甚至都已有亲身体会了
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