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Animal Farm

By: George Orwell
Narrated by: Simon Callow
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Animal Farm is George Orwell's great socio-political allegory set in a farmyard, where the animals decide to seize the farmer's land and create a co-operative that reaps the benefits of their combined labours.

However, as with all great political plans, some animals see a bigger share of the rewards than others, and the animals start to question their supposed utopia. They decide that working for humans is doing them no favours, so under the leadership of Napoleon, the only Berkshire Boar on the farm, and the other pigs, they drive out the farmer and his cohorts and set about structuring their own society.Based on a list of supposedly animal-friendly rules such as "four legs good, two legs baaaaad", the animals work together to harvest their own food and run their own farm. However, little by little, the rules begin to mysteriously change, and the pigs seem to gain power little by little, making the animals question what society they were striving for in the first place and whether their new-found freedom is as liberating as they might have hoped.

With direct allusions to political figures such as Lenin, Marx, Trotsky, Stalin, and Molitov, to name but a few, Animal Farm is one of the greatest socio-political works of all time, and this UNABRIDGED audio does it absolute justice.

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Enjoyable audiobook

Great story and narration. Quick, easy, and entertaining. Definitely thought-provoking if this is what you are after.

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Exploration of ideology

An excellent exploration of ideology, and commentary on political systems and control of its people.

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A good read

I wish I had read this year's back, so true to life and funny :-)

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Incredibly enticing

Amazing listen and such a good story line, George Orwell definitely knew why he was doing, such a good commentary on communism and socialism

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Very cool

Great production of a classic story. The reader is very interesting and the music adds to the atmosphere.

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fantastic

A book that's been on my list for far too long that I finally got around to during a road trip. I love how George Orwell creates fictional novels with real world philosophical and political thought. When my daughter is older I will definitely buy a hard copy and read it to her.

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Amazing

This book really uses metaphor to its strong suit. It’s short, and extremely well written, worth a listen.

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Masterpiece

Great performance of perhaps the greatest rumination on power ever written. Do not mistake this book for a comment on 'communism' or 'capitalism' or even the historical events that took place in the first half of the twentieth century - this is an brilliantly cutting insight into political leadership, group psychology and the nature of man. It should be ranked alongside serious philosophical works such as The Prince and Leviathan rather than simply a tale of how "communism doesn't work" or how "Stalin stole the revolution" - it defies that kind of partisan classification and hints at the possibility of a world which combines justice and kindness; if only we could shed our cynicism and selfishness enough to get there.

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How that animals had a hilarious point of view

There was to much words and confusion. I enjoyed the book had loads of descriptions to the place story and was just interesting.

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A Timeless Classic

This book is relevant today in terms political ideology and has a lot in common with ‘1984’
I thought the narrator was brilliant really bought the story to life.

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