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Animal Farm and 1984

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Animal Farm and 1984 - Orwell, George
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Tired of their servitude to man, a group of farm animals revolt and establish their own society, only to be betrayed into worse servitude by their leaders, the pigs, whose slogan becomes: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." This 1945 satire addresses the socialist/communist philosophy of Stalin in the Soviet Union. The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern ...

Animal Farm and 1984 2003, Houghton Mifflin

ISBN-13: 9780151010264

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KCcolorado

Jun 7, 2007

In America Orwell's 1984 will be here by 2050

What I liked about the book was how perceptive it was about the future. At the same time living in an era twenty years past 1984 we can see how accurate many of the themes discussed in the book are playing out. The book helped me to see the world in a more realistic manner. I hope that others who read the book will begin to understand the problem with big government.

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