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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.

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Classics Dystopian Fiction Genre Fiction Political Science Fiction Thought-Provoking
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Great story and narration. Quick, easy, and entertaining. Definitely thought-provoking if this is what you are after.

Enjoyable audiobook

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An excellent exploration of ideology, and commentary on political systems and control of its people.

Exploration of ideology

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I wish I had read this year's back, so true to life and funny :-)

A good read

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Amazing listen and such a good story line, George Orwell definitely knew why he was doing, such a good commentary on communism and socialism

Incredibly enticing

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Great production of a classic story. The reader is very interesting and the music adds to the atmosphere.

Very cool

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