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**Book Title:** Animal Farm **Author:** George Orwell




 * 1) //Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.//
 * 2) //Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.//
 * 3) //No animal shall wear clothes.//
 * 4) //No animal shall sleep in a bed.//
 * 5) //No animal shall drink alcohol.//
 * 6) //No animal shall kill any other animal.//
 * 7) //All animals are equal.//

Animal Farm is a [|dystopian] [|allegorical] [|novella] by [|George Orwell]. Published in [|England] on 17 August [|1945], the book reflects events leading up to and during the [|Stalin era] before [|World War II]. Orwell, a [|democratic socialist][|[1]] and a member of the [|Independent Labour Party] for many years, was a critic of [|Joseph Stalin] and was suspicious of [|Moscow] -directed [|Stalinism] after his experiences with the [|NKVD] during the [|Spanish Civil War]. In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as his novel "contre Stalin". [|[2]] The original title was Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, but the subtitle was dropped by the US publishers for its 1946 publication and subsequently all but one of the translations during Orwell's lifetime omitted the addition. Other variations in the title include: A Satire and A Contemporary Satire. [|[2]] Orwell suggested for the [|French] translation the title Union des républiques socialistes animales, recalling the French name of the [|Soviet Union], Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques, and which abbreviates URSA, which means "bear", a symbol of Russia, in Latin. [|[2]] [|Time] magazine chose the book as one of the 100 best English-language novels (1923 to 2005); [|[3]] it also places at number 31 on the [|Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels]. It won a Retrospective [|Hugo Award] in 1996 and is also included in the [|Great Books of the Western World].

The novel addresses not only the corruption of the revolution by its leaders but also how wickedness, indifference, ignorance, greed and [|myopia] destroy any possibility of a Utopia. While this novel portrays corrupt leadership as the flaw in revolution (and not the act of revolution itself), it also shows how potential ignorance and indifference to problems within a revolution could allow horrors to happen if smooth transition to a people's government isn't satisfied.

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