Fiction Fun! Reads George Orwell’s Animal Farm
Friday, February 27, in the Guild Room. 6:30 p.m. for early conversations; 7:30–8:30 p.m. for book discussion.
Animal Farm—initially subtitled A Fairy Tale—is a satirical novella by George Orwell, in the tradition of Jonathan Swift. Its ostensible subject is the Russian Revolution and Joseph Stalin, but it has a bearing on authoritarian politics everywhere and always. Orwell was a democratic socialist, and he wrote this work during World War II; it was published in 1945. It’s a recognized classic, on several lists of leading works of fiction in the twentieth century. Wikipedia not only has an entry for the novel, but has entries for characters such as Napoleon, Snowball, Old Major, Squealer, Benjamin, and Boxer—pigs and a donkey and a horse. Information = frontdesk@allsaints-pas.org.
