Plongez en VO dans ce chef-d'oeuvre absolu. Pour vous aider, des traductions en marge vous permettront de bien comprendre le texte original. Ce texte en VO fait partie des lectures imposées pour les classes de Première dans le cadre du nouveau bac 2020. Retrouvez Sage l'Ancien, vieux cochon que tous les animaux de la ferme respectent, et son rêve d'un monde nouveau, plus égal et plus juste, débarrassé de Mr. Jones, le fermier incompétent. Découvrez cette fable politique à l'humour grinçant : assistez au soulèvement des animaux, à l'instauration de leur république fondée sur l'égalité, et aux vicissitudes qu'ils vont rencontrer...

Animal farm

À la ferme, la révolution est en marche. Les animaux exigent une société équitable, autonome et débarrassée de ses maîtres. L'heure de l'« animalisme » a sonné : les humains ne sont plus les bienvenus, à commencer par M. Jones et sa famille. Mais dans cette nouvelle organisation apparemment idéale, certains semblent plus égaux que d'autres... Un tyran en aurait-il remplacé un autre ?

Retrouvez en fin d'ouvrage un supplément pédagogique sur l'oeuvre et sa postérité.

La ferme des animaux

«Un certain 21 juin eut lieu en Angleterre la révolte des animaux. Les cochons dirigent le nouveau régime. Snowball et Napoléon, cochons en chef, affichent un règlement :"Tout ce qui est sur deux jambes est un ennemi. Tout ce qui est sur quatre jambes ou possède des ailes est un ami. Aucun animal ne portera de vêtements. Aucun animal ne dormira dans un lit. Aucun animal ne boira d'alcool. Aucun animal ne tuera un autre animal. Tous les animaux sont égaux."Le temps passe. La pluie efface les commandements. L'âne, un cynique, arrive encore à déchiffrer :"Tous les animaux sont égaux, mais (il semble que cela ait été rajouté) il y en a qui le sont plus que d'autres."»

Before he authored the dystopian 1984 and the allegorical Animal Farm, George Orwell was a journalist, reporting on England's working class - an investigation that led him to examine democratic socialism. In the 1930s, the Left Book Club, a socialist group in England, sent George Orwell to investigate the poverty and mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. Once there, he went beyond the requests of the book club, to investigate the employed as well. Orwell chose to live as the coal miners did - sleeping in foul lodgings, subsisting on a meager diet, struggling to feed a family on a dismal wage, and going down into the hellish, backbreaking mines. What Orwell saw clarified his feelings about socialism, and in The Road to Wigan Pier, he pointedly tells why socialism, the only remedy to the shocking conditions he had witnessed, repelled "so many normal decent people." "Orwell's code was a simple one, based on truth and 'deceny'; he was important - and original - because he insisted on applying that code to his own Socialist comrades as well as to the class enemy... It is the best sociological reporting I know."-The New Yorker

The Road To Wigan Pier

Retrouvez la nouvelle traduction de La Ferme des Animaux, le classique de George Orwell.
Rumeurs dans la basse-cour... Le vieux cochon Sage l'Ancien aurait fait, cette nuit, le rêve d'une société plus juste : d'une ferme égalitaire, autonome et solidaire d'où l'Homme - cet accapareur cupide du fruit de leur labeur - serait chassé. Aussitôt, M. Jones et sa famille sont boutés hors du domaine, de vertueux commandements, édictés, l'" animalisme ", décrété... Mais une petite élite de cochons, parmi lesquels l'ambitieux Napoléon, réfléchit déjà à confisquer le pouvoir à son profit, dévoyer l'idéal révolutionnaire et étendre partout son contrôle. Toute ressemblance avec des cochonneries existantes, ou ayant existé, n'étant évidemment que pure coïncidence...

Traduit de l'anglais par Charles Recoursé

George Orwells famous novel tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, the rebellion is betrayed, and under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon, the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before.

Animal Farm

A National Review Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Century. "One of Orwell's very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War." - The New Yorker In 1936, originally intending merely to report on the Spanish Civil War as a journalist, George Orwell found himself embroiled as a participant-as a member of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unity. Fighting against the Fascists, he described in painfully vivid and occasionally comic detail life in the trenches-with a "democratic army" composed of men with no ranks, no titles, and often no weapons-and his near fatal wounding. As the politics became tangled, Orwell was pulled into a heartbreaking conflict between his own personal ideals and the complicated realities of political power struggles. Considered one of the finest works by a man V. S. Pritchett called "the wintry conscience of a generation, " Homage to Catalonia is both Orwell's memoir of his experiences at the front and his tribute to those who died in what he called a fight for common decency. This edition features a new foreword by Adam Hochschild placing the war in greater context and discussing the evolution of Orwell's views on the Spanish Civil War. "No one except George Orwell .

Homage To Catalonia

Insurance salesman George "Fatty" Bowling lives with his humorless wife and their two irritating children in a dull house in a tract development in the historyless London suburb of West Bletchley. The year is 1938; doomsayers are declaring that England will be at war again by 1941. When George bets on an unlikely horse and wins, he finds himself with a little extra cash on his hands. What should he spend it on? "The alternatives, it seemed to me, were either a week-end with a woman or dribbling it quietly away on odds and ends such as cigars and double whiskeys." But a chance encounter with a poster in Charing Cross sets him off on a tremendous journey into his own memories--memories, especially, of a boyhood spent in Lower Binfield, the country village where he grew up. His recollections are pungent and detailed. Touch by touch, he paints for us a whole world that is already nearly lost: a world not yet ruled by the fear of war and not yet blighted by war's aftermath:  1913! My God! 1913! The stillness, the green water, the rushing of the weir! It'll never come again. I don't mean that 1913 will never come again. I mean the feeling inside you, the feeling of not being in a hurry and not being frightened, the feeling you've either had and don't need to be told about, or haven't had and won't ever have the chance to learn.  Alas, George finds that even Lower Binfield has been darkened by the bomber's shadow.  Readers of 1984 will recognize Orwell's desperate insistence on the importance of the individual, of memory, of history, and of language; and they will find in Fatty Bowling one of Orwell's most engaging creations--a warm, witty, thinking, remembering Everyman in a world that is fast learning not to think and not to remember, and thus swiftly losing its mind. --Daniel Hintzsche

Un peu d'air frais

???À la ferme du Manoir, c'est la révolution : les animaux ont pris le pouvoir. Désormais, ils ne travailleront que pour eux-mêmes, et bâtiront ensemble un avenir radieux. Désormais, ils ne connaîtront plus de maître, car tous les animaux sont égaux. Ou, du moins, presque tous.

Cette nouvelle traduction restitue toute la verve satirique d'une fable politique magistrale. Tristement intemporelle et terriblement drôle, La Ferme des animaux n'a pas fini de faire réfléchir les Hommes.

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