
Animal Farm
The animals drive the farmer out and take over the farm. Orwell's 1945 fable is about what happens after that.
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by Ray Bradbury
Books burn easily in a culture already trained to prefer speed, noise, entertainment, and easy answers.
A fireman charged with burning books begins to question a society where censorship succeeds because serious attention has become unwelcome.
Like Animal Farm, it makes a frightening political mechanism immediately readable.

The animals drive the farmer out and take over the farm. Orwell's 1945 fable is about what happens after that.
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Orwell's last novel: a clerk in a London ministry falsifies the past for a living, then starts a diary of his own.
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A society gives up freedom willingly because comfort, entertainment, and chemical happiness feel easier.
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English novelist of Brave New World, which he wrote not in Paris but on the Mediterranean coast at Sanary-sur-Mer. His French years ran from a rented house at Suresnes on the western edge of Paris, where he pushed the dying D. H. Lawrence towards the city's presses, to seven years on the Riviera; he then left for California, wrote the best-known modern account of taking mescaline, the hallucinogenic drug made from the peyote cactus, and died on the day President Kennedy was shot.
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English novelist, essayist and journalist, born Eric Arthur Blair, who wrote Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. He was an imperial policeman in Burma, a plongeur in Paris kitchens off the rue Mouffetard, and a militiaman shot through the neck in Spain before any of it.
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The doctor of the Paris slums who wrote the century's blackest, funniest novel — and changed the sound of French prose.
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