The No1 Ethical retailer for Books, CD’s, DVD’s & Games
30 Day Refund Guarantee

Animal Farm: A Fairy Story

Animal Farm: A Fairy Story

by George Orwell (Author)

  • Used

    Paperback 1996

    $4.16

  • Used

    paperback

    $3.61

  • New

    Paperback 2003

    $15.52

  • New

    Hardcover 1993

    $14.04
Synopsis

Having got rid of their human master, the animals of Manor Farm look forward to a life of freedom and plenty. But as a clever, ruthless elite among them takes control, the other animals find themselves hopelessly ensnared in the old ways. Orwell's chilling story of the betrayal of idealism through tyranny and corruption, is as fresh and relevant today as when it was first published in 1945.

$4.16

Save:$7.21 (63%)

Quantity

1 in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 95
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Penguin
Published: 30 Apr 1996
ISBN 10: 0140126708
ISBN 13: 9780140126709
Prizes: Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003. Shortlisted for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003.

Media Reviews
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
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
Author Bio
Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in 1903 in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. The family moved to England in 1907 and in 1917 Orwell entered Eton, where he contributed regularly to the various college magazines. From 1922 to 1927 he served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, an experience that inspired his first novel, Burmese Days (1934). Several years of poverty followed. He lived in Paris for two years before returning to England, where he worked successively as a private tutor, schoolteacher and bookshop assistant, and contributed reviews and articles to a number of periodicals. Down and Out in Paris and London was published in 1933. In 1936 he was commissioned by Victor Gollancz to visit areas of mass unemployment in Lancashire and Yorkshire, and The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) is a powerful description of the poverty he saw there. At the end of 1936 Orwell went to Spain to fight for the Republicans and was wounded. Homage to Catalonia is his account of the civil war. He was admitted to a sanatorium in 1938 and from then on was never fully fit. He spent six months in Morocco and there wrote Coming Up for Air. During the Second World War he served in the Home Guard and worked for the BBC Eastern Service from 1941 to 1943. As literary editor of the Tribune he contributed a regular page of political and literary commentary, and he also wrote for the Observer and later for the Manchester Evening News. His unique political allegory, Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. George Orwell died in London in January 1950.