Animal Farm

· Blackstone Audio Inc. · Narrated by Ralph Cosham
4.7
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George Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution has become an intimate part of our contemporary culture, with its treatment of democratic, fascist, and socialist ideals through an animal fable.

The animals of Mr. Jones’s Manor Farm are overworked, mistreated, and desperately seeking a reprieve. In their quest to create an idyllic society where justice and equality reign, the animals of Manor Farm revolt against their human rulers, establishing the democratic Animal Farm under the credo, “All Animals Are Created Equal.” Out of their cleverness, the pigs—Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball—emerge as leaders of the new community. In a development of insidious familiarity, the pigs begin to assume ever greater amounts of power, while other animals, especially the faithful horse Boxer, assume more of the work. The climax of the story results in a brutal betrayal, when totalitarian rule is reestablished with the bloodstained postscript to the founding slogan: “But Some Animals Are More Equal than Others.”

This astonishing allegory, one of the most scathing satires in literary history, remains as fresh and relevant as the day it was published.

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4.7
183 reviews
Timbo Sliced
October 7, 2019
Rambo Cabbage, you are correct. I don't believe too many are happy with the police state we live in. I used to be patriotic and care. Liberals were in power or in nearby offices too long. I believe he was already compromised by communism. They did not know yet the atrocities communism can bring about. We allow ourselves to be video tapes right stripped and ignored everyday. Maybe we aren't the best people in the world but we fight for all.
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Jessica Megan Simmons
December 9, 2022
George Orwell is one of my favorite authors! I read this book when I was much younger in age. A revisit through an audio book awakening a feminist rebellion within my aging punk rock soul. I believe All Orwells novels should be included within Public/Private School Curriculums, not just his classic novel 1984. As these classic novels speak impeccable undeniable truths within our nation's current Police State and widely accepted Political Facisim nightmare that it continues to decay within.
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Avraham Baruch Goldshtein “TXUS DLK”
May 31, 2018
I have previously read and also listened to this book elsewhere, and I find it to be nothing short of amazing, educating, enlightening and, yes, saddening too in light of some of the current events we live in America these days. I recommend that everyone does him/herself a favor and pick a copy of this book and, obviously, 1984 by Mr. Orwell and devour each and every letter, word, sentence, and paragraph of their pages with the hunger one would eat a healthy meal after a hard-days work, or as though one would be starving for knowledge; and knowledge is what we need these days. The narrator in this version has a very nice voice; which appeals to me and would make me listen to this volume at least a couple times. This is of great value because one needs a great narrator to remained interested, sometimes, on what one listens to. Although with this great story by such an amazing author one would hardly need much more than to read, or listen, to a few sentences before getting hooked and hunger for more and more and more and, well, more! Do yourself a favor; get this!
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About the author

Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia.

Geoffrey Howard (a.k.a. Ralph Cosham) (1936–2014) was a British journalist who changed careers to become a narrator and screen and stage actor. He performed in more than one hundred professional theatrical roles. His audiobook narrations were named “Audio Best of the Year” by Publishers Weekly, and he won seven AudioFile Earphones Awards, and in 2013 he won the coveted Audie Award for Best Mystery Narration for his reading of Louise Penny’s The Beautiful Mystery.

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