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        Animal Farm


        setting

        Russian Farm House

        time

        1940s

        language

        English

        region

        Western Europe

        year published

        1945

        page count

        139

        difficulty

        Intermediate

        main characters

        Pigs, horses, and other barnyard creatures

        Rip's impressions

        Quick read. Touching, politically disturbing, with barnyerd animals as the stars.

        first line

        Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes. With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring.

        last lines

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