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Animal Farm
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  • Published: 20 October 2020
  • ISBN: 9781787302525
  • Imprint: Harvill Secker
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $28.00

Animal Farm

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3 June 2025
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5 Nov 2024
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2 Mar 2021
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1 Sept 2008
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17 Dec 1999
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2 Mar 2021
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20 Oct 2020
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14 Jan 2021
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7 Jan 2021
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4 Feb 2013
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30 Aug 2018
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25 June 1993
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A beautiful & affordable b-format hardback of Animal Farm on its 75th anniversary; reissued alongside Orwell's essential works Nineteen Eighty-Four and Down and Out in Paris and London.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

George Orwell's fable of revolutionary farm animals - the steadfast horses Boxer and Clover, the opportunistic pigs Snowball and Napoleon, and the deafening choir of sheep - who overthrow their elitist human master only to find themselves subject to a new authority, is one of the most famous warnings ever written.

Rejected by such eminent publishing figures as Victor Gollancz, Jonathan Cape and T.S. Eliot due to its daringly open criticism of Stalin, Animal Farm was published to great acclaim by Martin Secker and Warburg on 17 August 1945. One reviewer wrote 'In a hundred years' time perhaps Animal Farm ... may simply be a fairy story: today it is a fairy story with a good deal of point.'

Seventy-five years since its first publication, Orwell's immortal satire remains an unparalleled masterpiece and more relevant than ever.

The Authoritative Text. With an introduction by Christopher Hitchens.

*The jacket of this stunning hardback edition features period artwork by Elizabeth Friedlander, one of Europe's pre-eminent 20th-century graphic designers. Look out for complementary editions of Orwell's essential works Nineteen Eighty-Four and Down and Out in Paris and London.*
  • Published: 20 October 2020
  • ISBN: 9781787302525
  • Imprint: Harvill Secker
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $28.00
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About the author

George Orwell

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.

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Praise for Animal Farm

Remains our great satire of the darker face of modern history

Malcolm Bradbury

Animal Farm has seen off all the opposition. It's as valid as today as it was fifty years ago

Ralph Steadman

It immediately established itself in the reader's imagination, and in the reader's political discourse. The book will survive all its editions

New York Times

Surely one of the greatest works of literature of the 20th century, delivering truths about politics that remain, to this hour, horribly disturbing

The Times

To say that I was horrified by this book is an understatement… The whole experience was deeply disturbing to me, but I am forever grateful to Orwell for alerting me early to the danger flags I've tried to watch out for since

Margaret Atwood, Guardian