Animal Farm By George Orwell (Paperback, 2000)

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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 & take over the farm themselves they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom & equality But gradually a cunning ruthless elite among them masterminded by the pigs Napoleon & Snowball starts to take control Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought & find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another & It is the history of a revolution that went wrong
- & 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Orwell for the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945 Orwell wrote the novel at the end of 1943 but it almost remained unpublished; its savage attack on Stalin at that time Britain&s ally led to the book being refused by publisher after publisher Orwell&s simple tragic fable has since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