What if you actually made progress in Vietnamese by reading a masterpiece — no dictionary, no effort, no giving up?

This book is a bilingual edition: it contains the complete novel in Vietnamese AND in English, together in the same volume. You read Vietnamese; English is right there to help you.

Why a bilingual book? Unlike apps and textbooks, you learn with a real story that makes you want to turn the page. It is the most natural immersion method there is.

— THE METHOD —

Ordinary bilingual editions make you lose the thread: the Vietnamese text on the left, the English text on the right, and your eyes darting back and forth hunting for the right line. The result: you give up in the first few pages.

Polyglot Publishing invented something else: synchronised line-by-line alternation. Every sentence in Vietnamese is immediately followed by its English translation — like subtitles, but on paper.

• Understand everything, instantly — the meaning of each word is checked at a glance, with no dictionary and no phone
• Improve without noticing — your brain links the two languages unconsciously, sentence after sentence, and Vietnamese grammar sinks in naturally
• Learn Vietnamese by finally reading what you love — a real novel, not textbook dialogue

Suitable for every level: the translation helps when you need it — and never gets in the way of your reading.

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— THE BOOK —

The animals of Manor Farm drive out their master and set about running the farm themselves, under the banner of equality. The pigs, quickest to learn, take charge of organising the work and writing the rules.

Little by little, the rules change, the memories fade, and the new masters come to resemble the old. Through a fable that reads at first like a children's tale, Orwell traces how a revolution is confiscated and how language is bent to serve power. A short, sharp book about betrayed hopes — and about the words used to make betrayal look like progress.

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