Book description
'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 George Orwell for the
first edition of ANIMAL FARM in 1945. His simple and tragicfable,
telling of what happens when the animals drive out Mr Jones and
attempt to run the farm themselves, has since become a world-famous
classic of English prose.
'Surely the most important fictional satire to be written in
twentieth-century Britain' Malcolm Bradbury
Includes Orwell's proposed preface that was discovered years after
the first edition had been published, as well as his unique preface
for the Ukrainian edition. Also contains explanatory footnotes.
Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in India in 1903. He was
educated at Eton, served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, and
worked in Britain as a private tutor, schoolteacher, bookshop assistant
and journalist. In 1936, Orwell went to fight for the Republicans in the
Spanish Civil War and was wounded. In 1938 he was admitted into a
sanatorium and from then on was never fully fit. George Orwell died in
London in 1950.
