Coming Up for Air（奥威尔作品）（ISBN=9780156196253）
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ANIMAL FARM(ISBN=9780679420392)
Amazon.com Review Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers'revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and theSea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book ReportAbout. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.)Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism,Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engagingstory and an allegory that actually works. When the downtroddenbeasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take overmanagement of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal.Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for onebrief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' SevenCommandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. Allanimals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes,sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those thatgo upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, bydefinition, the enemy. Too soon, however
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