Penulis : George Orwell
Penerbit : Mentor Book
Tebal : 208 halaman
Kategori : fiksi, novel
Jenis kover : soft cover
Kondisi buku : buku bekas, kover kurang, isi cukup baik
Harga jual : Rp. 25.000
Berat : 150 gram
Bahasa : Inggris
SINOPSIS
Commissioned by the left book club (who perhaps got more than they bargained for), George Orwell set out to explore the coal areas of Lancashire and Yorkshire at a time of mass unemployment.
In a series of painfully clear descriptions – of the mines, of unemployment, of overcrowding, and malnutrition, Orwell exposed a cruel system. In this, and in his bitter attack on fashionable, intellectual and bourgeois socialists, his “Urban Rides “ are that rarity: the polemic that loses none of its force with the passage of time.
Penulis : George Orwell
Penerbit : Signet Classic
Tebal : 140 halaman
Tahun terbit : 1996
Kategori : fiksi
Jenis kover : soft cover
Kondisi : baik
Harga : Rp. 28.000
Bahasa : Inggris
Sinopsis
A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned – a razor edged fairy tale for grown ups that records the evolution from the revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible. When animal farm was first published fifty years ago, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece has a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.
“A wise, compassionate, and illuminating fable for our times.”
-New York Times
“Absolutely first rate...comparable to Voltaire and Swift.”
-Edmund Wilson, in The New Yorker
