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'All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others'

When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless Ãlite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another.

'It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine,' wrote Orwell for the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945. Orwell wrote the novel at the end of 1943, but it almost remained unpublished; its savage attack on Stalin, at that time Britain's ally, led to the book being refused by publisher after publisher. Orwell's simple, tragic f

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Remains our great satire of the darker face of modern history -- Malcolm Bradbury
Animal Farm has seen off all the opposition. It's as valid as today as it was fifty years ago -- Ralph Steadman

Animal Farm

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 3 January 2013
      ISBN-13 9780141393056
      978-0141393056
      ISBN-10 014139305X
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      Fiction Contemporary Fiction Books by George Orwell

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      'All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others'

      When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless Ãlite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another.

      'It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine,' wrote Orwell for the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945. Orwell wrote the novel at the end of 1943, but it almost remained unpublished; its savage attack on Stalin, at that time Britain's ally, led to the book being refused by publisher after publisher. Orwell's simple, tragic f

      Trade Review
      Remains our great satire of the darker face of modern history -- Malcolm Bradbury
      Animal Farm has seen off all the opposition. It's as valid as today as it was fifty years ago -- Ralph Steadman

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