&quote;Animal Farm&quote; is an allegorical novella by George Orwell published in England in 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World Wa

Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, bo...(展开全部)

In her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative -- her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches -- to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets. Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil...(展开全部)

&quote;Animal Farm&quote; is an allegorical novella by George Orwell published in England in 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World Wa

In her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative -- her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches -- to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets. Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil...(展开全部)

Introduction by Barbara Hardy

Introduction by Barbara Hardy

A colourful and charmingly illustrated non-fiction book for very small children, with lots of flaps to lift, holes to peep through and farm animals to spot. Children can peep inside the hen house at sunrise in search of eggs, watch the cows being milked behind the big barn doors and spot the lambs frolicking in the fields. Little hands will love to lift the flaps to see the veg...(展开全部)

马诺尔农庄一只名叫老梅杰的猪在提出了“人类剥削动物，动物须革命”的理论之后死去，几个月后，农庄里掀起了一场由猪领导的革命，原来的剥削者——主人琼斯先生被赶走，动物们实现了“当家作主”的愿望，尝到了革命果实的甘美，马诺尔农庄被更名为“动物农庄”，还制定了七戒。然而不久，两只领头的猪为了权力而互相倾轧，胜利的一方宣布另一方是叛徒、内奸，猪们逐渐侵占了其他动物的劳动成果，成为新的特权阶级，“所有动物一律平等”的原则被修正为“但有些动物比其他动物更平等”，动物们又恢复到从前的悲惨状况。本电子书为未删减全英文版。

《动物农场》是奥威尔最优秀的作品之一，是一则入木三分的反乌托的政治讽喻寓言。农场的一群动物成功地进行了一场“革命”，将压榨他们的人类东家赶出农场，建立起一个平等的动物社会。然而，动物领袖，那些聪明的猪们最终却篡夺了革命的果实，成为比人类东家更加独裁和极权的统治者。