Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition

by George Orwell

Russell Baker (Preface) and Tea Obreht (Introduction)

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75th Anniversary Edition—Includes a New Introduction by Téa Obreht

George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism.

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

A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned—a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.
 
When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.
  • ISBN10 0451526341
  • ISBN13 9780451526342
  • Publish Date 6 April 2004 (first published 14 July 1905)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 30 January 2010
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Penguin Books Australia
  • Imprint Signet