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Animal Farm
Author: George Orwell
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ScotlandPsychological Suspense
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Animal Farm is George Orwell’s allegorical novella about farm animals overthrowing their human owner only to see the pigs seize power and repeat the tyranny they rejected, satirising revolution and the corrupting influence of authority. For readers of classic political fiction and satire examining power, ideology and social inequality.
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We think this remains a brutal and clear critique of revolution and power, a story that feels fresh even decades after it was first published.
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On Manor Farm, neglect is the spark. Mr Jones is so lazy and drunken that he forgets to feed his livestock, and the animals’ anger hardens into action. Under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, they rise up and take the farm for themselves, renaming it Animal Farm and promising to end the old inequities of the yard.
The new order is meant to benefit all who walk on four legs. Rules are set down, slogans repeated, and the idea of equality is held up as the guiding light. Yet time changes what the rebellion meant. Power gathers, the stated ideals are bent, then quietly discarded, and the language of fairness becomes something else entirely.
First published in 1945, Animal Farm is George Orwell’s satire on the corrupting influence of power. This edition is introduced by Alan Johnson.
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