George Orwell's timeless fable-a parable for would-be liberators everywhere, glimpsed through the lens of our own history.
As ferociously fresh as it was more than a half century ago, this remarkable allegory of a downtrodden society of overworked, mistreated animals, and their quest to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality is one of the most scathing satires ever published. As we witness the rise and bloody fall of the revolutionary animals, we begin to recognize the seeds of totalitarianism in the most idealistic organization; and in our most charismatic leaders, the souls of our cruelest oppressors.
With a foreword by Ann Patchett
George Orwell (pseudonym for Eric Blair [1903-50]) was born in Bengal and educated at Eton; after service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, he returned to Europe to earn his living penning novels and essays. He was essentially a political writer who focused his attention on his own times, a man of intense feelings and intense hates. An opponent of totalitarianism, he served in the Loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War. Besides his classic Animal Farm, his works include a novel based on his experiences as a colonial policeman, Burmese Days, two firsthand studies of poverty, Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier, an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, Homage to Catalonia; and the extraordinary novel of political prophecy whose title became part of our language, 1984.
Show moreGeorge Orwell's timeless fable-a parable for would-be liberators everywhere, glimpsed through the lens of our own history.
As ferociously fresh as it was more than a half century ago, this remarkable allegory of a downtrodden society of overworked, mistreated animals, and their quest to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality is one of the most scathing satires ever published. As we witness the rise and bloody fall of the revolutionary animals, we begin to recognize the seeds of totalitarianism in the most idealistic organization; and in our most charismatic leaders, the souls of our cruelest oppressors.
With a foreword by Ann Patchett
George Orwell (pseudonym for Eric Blair [1903-50]) was born in Bengal and educated at Eton; after service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, he returned to Europe to earn his living penning novels and essays. He was essentially a political writer who focused his attention on his own times, a man of intense feelings and intense hates. An opponent of totalitarianism, he served in the Loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War. Besides his classic Animal Farm, his works include a novel based on his experiences as a colonial policeman, Burmese Days, two firsthand studies of poverty, Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier, an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, Homage to Catalonia; and the extraordinary novel of political prophecy whose title became part of our language, 1984.
Show moreGeorge Orwell (pseudonym for Eric Blair [1903-50]) was born in Bengal and educated at Eton; after service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, he returned to Europe to earn his living penning novels and essays. He was essentially a political writer who focused his attention on his own times, a man of intense feelings and intense hates. An opponent of totalitarianism, he served in the Loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War. Besides his classic Animal Farm, his works include a novel based on his experiences as a colonial policeman, Burmese Days, two firsthand studies of poverty, Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier, an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, Homage to Catalonia; and the extraordinary novel of political prophecy whose title became part of our language, 1984.
“Animal Farm remains our great satire on the darker face of modern
history.”
—Malcolm Bradbury
“As lucid as glass and quite as sharp...[Animal Farm] has the
double meaning, the sharp edge, and the lucidity of Swift.”
—Atlantic Monthly
“A wise, compassionate, and illuminating fable for our times.”
—New York Times
“Orwell has worked out his theme with a simplicity, a wit, and a
dryness that are close to La Fontaine and Gay, and has written in a
prose so plain and spare, so admirably proportioned to his purpose,
that Animal Farm even seems very creditable if we compare it with
Voltaire and Swift.”
—Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker
“Orwell’s satire here is amply broad, cleverly conceived, and
delightfully written.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“The book for everyone and Everyman, its brightness undimmed after
fifty years.”
—Ruth Rendell
"Animal Farm remains our great satire on the darker face of
modern history." -Malcolm Bradbury
"As lucid as glass and quite as sharp...[Animal Farm] has
the double meaning, the sharp edge, and the lucidity of Swift."
-Atlantic Monthly
"A wise, compassionate, and illuminating fable for our times."
-New York Times
"Orwell has worked out his theme with a simplicity, a wit, and a
dryness that are close to La Fontaine and Gay, and has written in a
prose so plain and spare, so admirably proportioned to his purpose,
that Animal Farm even seems very creditable if we compare it with
Voltaire and Swift." -Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker
"Orwell's satire here is amply broad, cleverly conceived, and
delightfully written." -San Francisco Chronicle
"The book for everyone and Everyman, its brightness undimmed after
fifty years." -Ruth Rendell
With an Introduction by Julian Symons
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