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Animal Farm
George Orwell

Orwell’s classic fable-like allegory to Stalinism. Feeling suppressed and exploited by the farmer, a group of farm animals plot a revolution. But soon after the revolutionary takeover of the farmyard, their leaders become corrupted by power and turn into the ones they once chased away.

· · 1946

Critical edition

Orwell, George. Animal Farm. Penguin, 2008. 112 pp., ISBN 9780141036137

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