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Author
Index
O |
George
Orwell |
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Title
Index
A |
Animal
Farm |
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| Year |
1945 |
| Publisher |
Penguin |
| ISBN |
0451526341 |
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Synopsis
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The
animals on the
farm drive out
their master and
take over and
administer the
farm for
themselves.
The experiment is
entirely
successful, except
for the
unfortunate fact
that someone has
to take the
deposed farmer's
place.
Leadership
devolves almost
automatically upon
the pigs, who are
on a higher
intellectual level
than the rest of
the animals.
Unhappily their
character is not
equal to their
intelligence, and
out of this fact
springs the main
development of the
story.
The last
chapter brings a
dramatic change,
which, as soon as
it has happened,
is seen to have
been inevitable
from the start. |
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Review
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In
this biting satire
upon dictatorship,
George Orwell
makes use of the
technique
perfected by Swift
in A Tale of a
Tub. It
is the history of
a revolution that
went wrong - and
of the excellent
excuses that were
forthcoming at
every step for
each perversion of
the original
doctrine
'This little
book, about as
long as Candide,
may fairly be
compared with it
as a searching
commentary on the
dominant
philosophy of the
age'
Punch |
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Credit:
NASA
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Global
Callisto
in Color
Bright
scars on a
darker
surface
testify to
a long
history of
impacts on
Jupiter's
moon
Callisto
in this
image of
Callisto
from
NASA's
Galileo
spacecraft.
The
picture,
taken in
May 2001,
is the
only
complete
global
color
image of
Callisto
obtained
by
Galileo,
which
began
orbiting
Jupiter in
1995. Of
Jupiter's
four
largest
moons,
Callisto
orbits
farthest
from the
giant
planet.
Callisto's
surface is
uniformly
cratered
but is not
uniform in
color or
brightness.
Scientists
believe
the
brighter
areas are
mainly ice
and the
darker
areas are
highly
eroded,
ice-poor
material. |
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NASA
Image of
the day
archive |
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