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Animal Farm: a fairy story (Great Orwell)
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Animal Farm: a fairy story (Great Orwell) Mass market paperback - 2013

by Orwell, George

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Penguin Classics, 2013-01-03. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 4x0x7. Book is in very good condition. All pages are intact and unmarked.
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  • Title Animal Farm: a fairy story (Great Orwell)
  • Author Orwell, George
  • Binding Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition Paperback
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 128
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Classics
  • Date 2013-01-03
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0262378
  • ISBN 9780141393056 / 014139305X
  • Weight 0.18 lbs (0.08 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.16 x 4.4 x 0.32 in (18.19 x 11.18 x 0.81 cm)
  • Reading level 1170
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

From the publisher

'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 lite 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 Orwell wrote the novel at the end of 1943, but it almost remained unpublished; its savage attack on Stalin, at that time Britain's ally, led to the book being refused by publisher after publisher.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 fable has since become a world-famous classic.

This Penguin Modern classics edition includes an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury.

First Edition Identification

Secker and Warburg first published Animal Farm in London in 1945. With a print run of just 4,000 copies, the first edition is bound in green cloth and states “First Published May 1945” on the copyright page. The original green and grey dust jacket is famously fragile as it was cheaply produced to meet Wartime Economy Standards.

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About the author

Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia.