Hugo Award Winner for Best Novell

Chapters: Animal Farm, Dragonflight, the Man Who Sold the Moon, Coraline, Riders of the Purple Wage, Beggars in Spain, the Word for World Is Forest, Houston, Houston, Do You Read?, the Atrocity Archives, Down in the Bottomlands, the Hemingway Hoax, the Cookie Monster, Eye for Eye, My Name Is Legion, Inside Job, the Girl Who Was Plugged In, Nightwings, Ill Met in Lankhmar, Enemy Mine, the Queen of Air and Darkness, All Seated on the Ground, 24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai, Gilgamesh in the Outback, the Saturn Game, Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge, Lost Dorsai. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 114. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Animal Farm is a dystopian allegorical novella by George Orwell. Published in England on 17 August 1945, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World War II. Orwell, a democratic socialist and a member of the Independent Labour Party for many years, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and was suspicious of Moscow-directed Stalinism after his experiences with the NKVD during the Spanish Civil War. In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as his novel "contre Stalin." The original title was Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, but A Fairy Story was dropped by the US publishers for its 1946 publication. Of all the translations during Orwell's lifetime, only Telugu kept the original title. Other variations in the title include: A Satire and A Contemporary Satire. Orwell suggested for the French translation the title Union des r publiques socialistes animales, recalling the French name of the Soviet Union, Union des r publiques socialistes sovi tiques, and which abbreviates URSA, which means "bear," a symbol of Russia, in Latin. Time Magazine chose the book as one of the 100 best English-language novels (1923 to 2005); it also place...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=62