
Animal Farm
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Narrated by:
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Simon Callow
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By:
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George Orwell
About this listen
Just as relevant today as it was when it was first published, this classic work of fiction is given a new lease of life through Simon Callow's imaginative narration. First-time listeners and Orwell veterans alike will delight in this audiobook version.
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.
©1945 George Orwell Estate (P)2009 CSA WordCallow is a warm, creative narrator and the brief musical interludes really work well, enjoy .
Not to be missed
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Seventy five years later we are in a world of "post truth" and "fake news" where the Leader Of The Free World openly and gratuitously claims his own version of what is and what is now a fact in a similar way that the Napoleon and the pigs of Animal Farm re-wrote the Seven Commandments to revise historical events and to sate their quest for absolute power.
The sad fact is that Animal Farm is as relevant today as it was in 1945.
As relevant today as it was in 1945
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Simon Callow is (obviously) superb
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Simon Callow's narration makes it!
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Definitely worth a listen
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Exceptionally good, and living up to the hype
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Fabulously narrated!
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classic
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Spectacular
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good
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