A View into our Near Future | Animal Farm and 1984

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	• Animal Farm and 1984 George Orwell Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 37 reviews view larger image
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Animal Farm and 1984

These titles are classics and speak for themselves and are excellent reads. It's content is as revealing and entertaining as the reader's maturity level. It makes more sense to me now than it did 25 years ago. The real value was that the book's actual quality of binding and dust jacket made the read very comfortable. This is a very nice edition especially getting the two great titles in one cover!

A View into our Near Future

I enjoyed reading both of these George Orwell novels, but found them distressing at the same time, especially 1984. I remember watching the movie on TV fifty years ago, but reading the book has ten times the impact.

It's amazing how well Orwell could project into the future and describe so well the very things we are experiencing today, the loss of freedoms, the micromanaging involvement of the government into our daily lives, the Thought Police, control of what words were permitted, constant survaillance in our lives, continually rewriting history to fit the political agenda, Doublespeak, Doublethink, etc.

Now, after reading 1984, I found many news items triggering mental images of what was contained in this Orwell novel. It's truely scarry.

This book should be on the library shelves of every home in America.

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George Orwell

I enjoyed this book from cover to cover. The first short story Animal Farm was almost like an introduction to 1984. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in conspiracy or just wants some good entertainment. It was a quick read and it was better and better every chapter!

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Orwell's finest

There's nothing left to say of these two five-star literary gems. The quality of the book is great and it seems like it will have a long shelf-life (so far, about a year and so far, pristine, like new).

Love Animal Farm, Love^2 1984.

Two wonderful classics in a single volume

Mr. Orwell has always been a great read.

Animal Farm is one of my favorite books. Its satirical look at Communism is priceless and timeless. Unfortunately, for those younger readers who have limited memory of the old Soviet Union, they may find some of the skillfully crafted yet subtle satire difficult to recognize.

As to 1984, it is also well worth another visit to "Big Brother," "newspeak," and "Ingsoc" (English Socialism of the future time). There is also a wonderful appendix on the grammer of newspeak (the language in which politically incorrect meaning is progressively and deliberately stripped from words).

The volume is very handsome and of high quality - a great addition to a personal library.

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ANIMAL FARM

George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture. It is the account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones's Manor Farm into Animal Farm--a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. Out of their cleverness, the pigs Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball emerge as leaders of the new community in a subtle evolution that proves disastrous. The climax is the brutal betrayal of the faithful horse Boxer, when totalitarian rule is reestablished with the bloodstained postscript to the founding slogan: But some Animals Are More Equal Than Others. . . .

1984

In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.

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