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Animal Farm

American

noun

a political satire (1945) by George Orwell.

Animal Farm Cultural

(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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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

George Orwell's classic novel Animal Farm is to be translated into Scots.

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2022

In the process, McKibben leaves out from his apt comparison the unfortunate re-establishment of a totalitarian regime that occurred inside Animal Farm after the revolution.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2022

It's this view that author Rebecca Solnit pushes back against in "Orwell's Roses," her unconventional new biography of the author of "1984" and "Animal Farm."

From Salon • Nov. 3, 2021

One symptom of this was that they had begun to call Animal Farm by its proper name and ceased to pretend that it was called the Manor Farm.

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

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