A Pathfinder for George Orwell’s Animal Farm
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  1. "`Not One of Us."DISCovering Authors.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale..
    http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ2101201826&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
  2. "Blair, Eric (Arthur) (1903-1950)."DISCovering Authors.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale..
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  3. "Criticism by Cyril Connolly."DISCovering Authors.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale..
    http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ2101201829&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
  4. "Criticism by George Woodcock."DISCovering Authors.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale..
    http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ2101201824&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
  5. "Criticism by Naomi Lewis."DISCovering Authors.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale..
    http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ2101208818&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
  6. "Criticism by Richard I. Smyer."DISCovering Authors.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale..
    http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ2101201830&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
  7. "Historical Context: Animal Farm."EXPLORING Novels.Detroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale..
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  8. "An Immodest Proposal: `Animal Farm,."DISCovering Authors.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale..
    http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ2101201828&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
  9. "Orwell's Fiction."EXPLORING Novels.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale..
    http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ2111200422&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
  10. "Orwell, George (1903-1950)."UXL Biographies.OnlineDetroit:UXL,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale..
    http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ2108101745&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
  11. "Plot Summary: Animal Farm."DISCovering Authors.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale..
    http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ2101300081&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
  12. "Primal Dream and Primal Crime: Orwell's Development as a Psychological Novelist."EXPLORING Novels.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale..
    http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ2111200419&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
  13. "Themes and Construction: Animal Farm."EXPLORING Novels.Detroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale..
    http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ2111500005&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
  14. "Writing for the People."EXPLORING Novels.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale..
    http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ2111200491&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
  15. Elbarbary, Samir. "Language as Theme in Animal Farm." International Fiction Review. 19.1 ( 1992): 31-38. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 68. Detroit: Gale, 2004. 31-38. Literature Resources from Gale. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 22 Sept. 2009 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRG&u=lapl>.
  16. Cook, Timothy. "Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and Orwell's Animal Farm: A Relationship Explored." Modern Fiction Studies. 30.4 (Winter 1984): 696-703. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 68. Detroit: Gale, 2004. 696-703. Literature Resources from Gale. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 22 Sept. 2009 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRG&u=lapl>.
  17. Fitzpatrick, Kathleen. "An overview of Animal Farm." Literature Resource Center. Detroit: Gale, Literature Resources from Gale. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 22 Sept. 2009 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRG&u=lapl>.
  18. Brown, Spencer. "Mealymouthed Critics Ignore Animal Farm's Anticommunist Flavor." Readings on Animal Farm. Ed. Terry O&apos;Neill San Diego, Calif.: Greenhaven Press, 1998. 70-81. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 68. Detroit: Gale, 2004. 70-81. Literature Resources from Gale. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 22 Sept. 2009 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRG&u=lapl>.
  19. Woodhouse, C. M. "Animal Farm." Times Literary Supplement. xxx-xxxi. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 68. Detroit: Gale, 2004. xxx-xxxi. Literature Resources from Gale. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 22 Sept. 2009 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRG&u=lapl>.
  20. Pearce, Robert. "Orwell, Tolstoy, and 'Animal Farm.' (George Orwell; Leo Tolstoy)." The Review of English Studies. 49.193 (Feb. 1998): p64. Literature Resources from Gale. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 22 Sept. 2009 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRG&u=lapl>.
  21. Peters, Michael. "Animal Farm Fifty Years On." Contemporary Review. 267.1555 (Aug. 1995): 90-91. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 68. Detroit: Gale, 2004. 90-91. Literature Resources from Gale. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 22 Sept. 2009 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRG&u=lapl>.
  22. Hollis, Christopher. "Animal Farm Is a Successful Animal Fable." Readings on Animal Farm. Ed. Terry O&apos;Neill San Diego, Calif.: Greenhaven Press, 1998. 43-49. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 68. Detroit: Gale, 2004. 43-49. Literature Resources from Gale. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 22 Sept. 2009 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRG&u=lapl>.
  23. Jones, Myrddin. "Orwell, Wells and the Animal Fable." English: The Journal of the English Association. 33.146 (Summer 1984): 127-136. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 68. Detroit: Gale, 2004. 127-136. Literature Resources from Gale. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 22 Sept. 2009 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRG&u=lapl>.
  24. Mezciems, Jenny. "Swift and Orwell: Utopia as Nightmare." Dutch Quarterly Review of Anglo-American Letters. 15.3 ( 1985): 189-210. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 68. Detroit: Gale, 2004. 189-210. Literature Resources from Gale. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 22 Sept. 2009 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRG&u=lapl>.
  25. Grofman, Bernard. "Pig and Proletariat: Animal Farm as History." San Jose Studies. 16.2 (Spring 1990): 5-39. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 68. Detroit: Gale, 2004. 5-39. Literature Resources from Gale. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 22 Sept. 2009 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRG&u=lapl>.
  26. Patai, Daphne. "Animal Farm Exposes Orwell's Sexism." Readings on Animal Farm. Ed. Terry O&apos;Neill San Diego, Calif.: Greenhaven Press, 1998. 116-126. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 68. Detroit: Gale, 2004. 116-126. Literature Resources from Gale. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 22 Sept. 2009 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRG&u=lapl>.
  27. "Eric (Arthur) Blair." Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present Day. Ed. Everett Franklin Bleiler. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982. Literature Resources from Gale. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 22 Sept. 2009 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRG&u=lapl>.
  28. Robb, Paul H. "Animal Farm: Overview." Reference Guide to English Literature. Ed. D. L. Kirkpatrick. 2nd ed. Chicago: St. James Press, 1991. Literature Resources from Gale. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 22 Sept. 2009 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRG&u=lapl>.
  29. Byrne, Katharine. "Not all books are created equal: Orwell & his animals at fifty." Commonweal. 123.10 (17 May 1996): p14. Literature Resources from Gale. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 22 Sept. 2009 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRG&u=lapl>.
  30. Rodden, John. "Appreciating Animal Farm in the new millennium." Modern Age. 45.1 (Winter 2003): p67. Literature Resources from Gale. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 22 Sept. 2009 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRG&u=lapl>.
  31. Pryce-Jones, David. "Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation." New Criterion. 19.3 (Nov. 2000): p63. Literature Resources from Gale. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 22 Sept. 2009 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRG&u=lapl>.
  32. "Overview: Animal Farm." Characters in 20th-Century Literature. Laurie Lanzen Harris. Detroit: Gale Research, 1990. Literature Resources from Gale. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 22 Sept. 2009 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRG&u=lapl>.
  33. "Animal Farm." Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature. Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 1995. Literature Resources from Gale. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 22 Sept. 2009 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRG&u=lapl>.
  34. "Overview: Animal Farm." Novels for Students. Vol. 3. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Literature Resources from Gale. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 22 Sept. 2009 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRG&u=lapl>.
  35. "Overview: Animal Farm." Literature and Its Times: Profiles of 300 Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events that Influenced Them. Joyce Moss and George Wilson. Vol. 4: World War II to the Affluent Fifties (1940-1950s). Detroit: Gale, 1997. Literature Resources from Gale. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 22 Sept. 2009 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRG&u=lapl>.