The Toy Box

Gotta love toys! And what better place to find them that the World Wide Web.
I do not represent or endorse any business, organization, product, service or practice featured here. I choose sites for thematic reasons or simply for their "Cool-factor."
If we offer something, which interests you, we're jazzed. If you've discovered a website or topic that piques you interest, share it! ([email protected])
Previous issues of The Toybox are achived here.

Welcome to the toybox.

Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others

In mid August, George Orwell's Animal Farm turned sixty years published. Originally rejected for publication by T.S. Eliot in 1944, the satire has never lost relevance and edge. It's still a great read!

All links will open in new windows

• A Synopsis


• George Orwell.org

Site offers a searchable text for Animal Farm, as well as his other works and a biography.
• Animal Farm, E-text

A plain text version from Project Gutenberg of Australia
No ads, pop-ups or flashing things, just black cyber ink on white cyber paper.
• Orwell's Preface to Animal Farm


• Summaries & Interpretations


• Orwell & Animal Farm Information Resources

There is alot here on a variety of topics including, historical backdrops, propaganda then and now, the Czars, the Russian Revolution and ideologies.
• George Orwell Links