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. Out of their cleverness, the pigs Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball emerge as leaders of the new community in a subtle evolution that proves disastrous. Jones's Manor Farm into Animal Farm-a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. It is the account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture. "The most solid, the most brilliant, thing George Orwell has done." - V.S. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present." - Lionel Trilling 1949 "1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. he pricked, provoked and badgered lazy minds, delighted those who enjoyed watching an orginal intelligence at work." - Time "There are no replacements for a George Orwell, just as there are no replacements for a Bernard Shaw or a Mark Twain. comparable to Voltaire and Swift." - The New Yorker "A wise, compassionate, and illuminating fable." - The New York Times read for pleasure, excitement and instruction." - from the Introduction by Christopher Hitchens taught in many schools as examples of moral weight and political prescience. "The two novels that you now hold in your hands have become 'modern classics'.
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