December 2011 Bibliobabbler Title: Animal Farm by George Orwell

December 13, 2011

7:00-9:00 p.m.

Discussion led by Rita Graham

One of Orwell’s finest works, this political fable is based on the events of Russia’s Bolshevik revolution and the betrayal of the cause by Joseph Stalin. The book concerns a group of barnyard animals who overthrow and chase off their exploitative human masters and set up a society of their own. Eventually the animals’ intelligent and power-loving leaders, the pigs, subvert the revolution and form a dictatorship even more oppressive and heartless than that of their former human masters. If you missed it in high school – here’s your chance!