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[eBook] Free - 1984, Animal Farm by George Orwell @ Amazon AU, Kobo

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Versions of both books have been free multiple times in the past and will probably be again in the future, most likely having to do with them being public domain.

1984 by George Orwell
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BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU

Newspeak, Doublethink, Big Brother, the Thought Police - the language of 1984 has passed into the English language as a symbol of the horrors of totalitarianism. George Orwell's story of Winston Smith's fight against the all-pervading Party has become a classic, not the least because of its intellectual coherence. First published in 1949, it retains as much relevance today as it had then.

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ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS

A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of 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 revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.
When Animal Farm was first published, 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 have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.

A couple of other versions of Animal Farm that are also currently free:

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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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Animal Farm & Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell on Kobo.

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Comments

      • +3

        It is a history book…

        We should never forget what happened and learn from it…

        • and the history keeps repeating.

      • +5

        Yet his damage remains.

      • +3

        Bit hard when we're paying $20 million a day in interest on his debt

        • +3

          At least you've got a reason to piss on his statue. :)

      • +2

        There's talk of a statue to honour "the dictator himself". I'd like to see protests about that , the silence is deafening.

      • +2

        Dan's gone. It's time to move on.

        He should be in jail.

    • +6

      Wouldn't even say its history. Its a prediction to the future

      • -1

        Its a prediction to the future

        The book is set in the past

        • +6

          But strangely prophetic to current day events

        • +1

          Well, it was set in the future when it was written.

          Coincidentally 1984 is when the movie Threads was released, whose events have not yet transpired forty years later but which still have a slither of a chance of coming true.

        • +1

          Do you know what allegory is?

          • +15

            @john676: Yes, a family member has peanut allegory

        • Given that controlling history is a key concept in the novel doubt over when the story occurs is a feature rather than a bug.

      • +7

        Its a prediction to the future

        1984 increasingly feels like a blueprint for today's reality in many parts of the West.

    • +2

      Dan lives in your head rent free

      • -Cooker with political Stockholm Syndrome

        • I don’t even live in Victoria. Not my problem

        • +3

          Better to be a cooker than be cooked

      • -4

        Wow that's a good one. Duuuhhhhhh. I made a joke mum duuuhhhhh

      • That's what propaganda is !

    • It's reality now , thank you very much !

    • needs rebranding to 2024, or maybe next year's edition: 2025

  • High school text book, no way to read it again.

    • Did you graduate?

      • +15

        Judging by that sentence, no.

    • +8

      no way to read it again.

      This deal provides a way to read it again

    • Yer me too.

      I got marked down for suggesting it was a love story. Julia and Winston's.

    • I would have killed to study decent books in high school.

      I'm surprised the teen suicide rate didn't go up in my school because of the universally dire and pointless selections made.

      • We're here to give you a solid set of skills to equip you for the modern world. Anyway, here's the writings of a guy who's been dead for over 400 years and wrote in a version of English you will never use.

        "Good, speak to th’ mariners. Fall to ’t yarely,or we run ourselves aground. Bestir, bestir!"

        The worst part for me in highschool was when we studied an English translation of The Outsider and we spent most of the class having to have 1940s French culture explained to us or what was meant by some of the poor translations. I guess that did equip me fairly well for my current job though, part of it includes training people overseas on how to use our systems, and all the documentation is trash.

    • +8

      This is not a banned book in China, nor the Animal Farm.

      It's often cited when satirizing the Soviet Union in the old days. and now used to satirize "mainstream media" brainwash

    • +3

      Maga??

      • +5

        People with red hats and stale coffee beans.

        • +1

          They aren't the ones we see trying to implement 1984 though lol

      • +3

        Make asinine great again!

      • +3

        Make Australia Great Again!

      • You might try read the book?

      • My avocados gone astray.

    • +1

      Real life plot twist: it's all actually an inside job.

    • +4

      maga members

      Crazy how you nutters think your side is any better. Two sides of the same coin.

    • Well that's the reason people can't come together to build a better world , at each other's throats . A country that's divided will never be united , enjoy the other side of the uni party

    • nah….. bogans gotta read. oz think they live in a free world, but thats the beginning for 1984. btw 1984 is about uk, not ussr

    • +4

      To be fair, australia is more CCP-ish than China or North Korea these days…

  • +2

    Why can I feel the comment section is going to blow up..

  • Can't believe this joker shot an elephant

  • Is there any decent eink device available under $140 these days? they all seem to be over $200. Even AliExpress is selling 8yo second jand ones for over $100.

  • +5

    DoublePlus Good.

    • The dumbing down of english is happening as we speak - in a bigly way

      • :/

        • “Bigly” is a Trumpism

      • Remitte ad usus Latinos

  • +5

    This is literally 1984.

  • Animal Farm is OK. I wouldn’t call it a particularly good book in its own right. It’s dated to the Soviet Era. Haven’t read 1984 for a while though.

    • It’s a book about Animals too

      • Every book is about animals. We are animals.

        • Two legs baaad, four legs better!

        • We are Oceanians

    • +2

      It’s a great book. Still relevant today. The ideas are portrayed in a straight forward way that anyone can get something from it.

      • Animal Farm is playing out in UK politics right now.
        Some animals are clearly more equal than others.
        And some animals get their wive’s clothes paid for by their friend whose flat you stayed at during Covid. The flat you pretended was your home, family pictures and all, during a political broadcast.
        Makes our animal overlords Scomo and Albo look good.

  • Cool always wanted to read 1984

    • are you authorised?

  • Haven't read it but I think it's an exact, word-for-word prediction about what's happening in my state right now.

  • Topical

  • The real 1984 is always in the comments

  • +2

    I heard they were remaking this and calling it 2020 Victoria.

  • Four legs good, two legs bad!

    • That used to be my motto, but now I'm lazy and do it lying down.

  • +2

    Is this Albos memoirs?

    • +1

      Careful. You might be jailed for spreading misinformation, disinformation and malinformation.

  • +1

    All Australians who didn't read this book when it was widespread in schools should be reading this now.

    • +3

      No need, they can just look at the 'news'.

      • +1

        That's the problem.

  • I prefer my book. Human Farm releasing 2025.

    also why do you need to put animal in front of farm? what other kinds of farms were around in 1984??

    • +4

      Believe it or not, there are farms that grow crops

    • PharmaFarms like Tegrity

  • Some Starmers are more equal than others?

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