Animal Farm

By George Orwell

&#39;All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others&#39;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 &#233;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. &#39;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,&#39;  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 Orwell  wrote the novel at the end of 1943, but it almost remained unpublished;  its savage attack on Stalin, at that time Britain&#39;s ally, led to the  book being refused by publisher after publisher. Orwell&#39;s simple, tragic  fable has since become a world-famous classic.This Penguin Modern classics edition includes an  introduction by Robert Colls.

'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 élite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as

By George Orwell

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