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Animal Farm
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  • Published: 3 June 2025
  • ISBN: 9781784878986
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $24.99

Animal Farm

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Paperback
3 June 2025
Paperback
5 Nov 2024
Paperback
2 Mar 2021
Paperback
23 Sept 2015
Paperback
1 Sept 2008
Paperback
17 Dec 1999
Tr. Paperback
3 Nov 2020
Hardback
2 Mar 2021
Hardback
20 Oct 2020
EBook
14 Jan 2021
EBook
5 Sept 2019
EBook
5 Sept 2019
Audiobook
7 Jan 2021
Audiobook
4 Feb 2013
Tr. Paperback
30 Aug 2018
Hardback
25 June 1993
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Orwell's famous and gripping allegory of Stalinism.

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

Mr Jones, the owner of Manor Farm, is a lazy drunk. The animals decide to overthrow him in a revolution that will allow them to run the farm, liberating themselves and creating a new life of equality and freedom. But they have underestimated the pigs. Napoleon and Snowball form an elite and take control for themselves, and the tyranny of the farmer is replaced with another kind of control leaving the animals again subject to a ruthless and cruel authority.

Imagined only as Orwell could, this powerful fable is instilled with humour and an underlying urgency that makes this one of the most prescient warnings ever written.

'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

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
  • Published: 3 June 2025
  • ISBN: 9781784878986
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $24.99
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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