"Animal Farm" by George Orwell
Details
Hitchin Book Club invites you to join us for some light hearted discussion about Animal Farm. This event is a great introduction to the book club (especially if you have never been to a book club before). We always welcome new members of any level of reading experience.
Book Name: Animal Farm
Book Author: George Orwell
Genre: Political Satire
Published: 1945
Page Count: 141
Word Count: 31k
Read Time Estimate: 2h4m
Date: Tuesday 22nd July 2025
Start Time: 19:30pm
End Time: approx 21:30pm
Location: The Albert Inn, 50 Walsworth Rd, Hitchin SG4 9SU - sitting at one of the tables inside. Any updates to location I will post in comments on the day.
Structure:
- Brief introduction and what you thought about the book
- Discussions based on a set of pre-prepared questions as prompts
- 5 to 10 minute break half-way through
- Opportunity to ask any questions to the group
- Closing thoughts and provide a rating for book out of 10
- Book club formally ends - feel free to leave or stick around for general conversations
About book (from Goodreads):
A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned –a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.
When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.
"Animal Farm" by George Orwell