Animal Farm

American  

noun

1. a political satire (1945) by George Orwell.

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Animal Farm Cultural  

1. (1945) A novel of satire by George Orwell. Animals take over a farm to escape human tyranny, but the pigs treat the other animals worse than the people did. A famous quotation from the book is “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

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Animal Farm

Serkis is careful to say "modern film version", because the first ever full-length British animated film of any kind was 1954's Animal Farm, the version that generations of school children have been shown in class.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

Serkis said Animal Farm was "one of the first young adult books that affected me emotionally"

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

Two translators for the Korean YouTube channel SBS Animal Farm explain how they write subtitles for an English-language audience.

From Slate ● May 14, 2023

A bookshelf lamp that casts a buttery glow on the plastic "Moana" figures who keep watch near the classroom set copies of "Animal Farm."

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2022

When time passed and the animals had evidently not starved to death, Frederick and Pilkmgton changed their tune and began to talk of the terrible wickedness that now flourished on Animal Farm.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell