Animal Farm
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  • Published: 2 March 2021
  • ISBN: 9781784876579
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $22.99

Animal Farm

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3 Jun 2025
Paperback
5 Nov 2024
Paperback
2 Mar 2021
Paperback
23 Sep 2015
Paperback
1 Sep 2008
Paperback
17 Dec 1999
Tr. Paperback
3 Nov 2020
Hardback
2 Mar 2021
Hardback
20 Oct 2020
EBook
14 Jan 2021
EBook
5 Sep 2019
EBook
5 Sep 2019
Audiobook
7 Jan 2021
Audiobook
4 Feb 2013
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30 Aug 2018
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25 Jun 1993
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Four of George Orwell's most essential books, 1984, Animal Farm, Down and Out in Paris and London and Homage to Catalonia available for the first time in Vintage Classics with a stunning and unexpected new cover look

THE AUTHORATITIVE TEXT

\"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.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
  • Published: 2 March 2021
  • ISBN: 9781784876579
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

George Orwell

George Orwell (1903–1950) is one of England's most famous writers and social commentators. He is the author of the classic political satire Animal Farm and the dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four. He is also well known for his essays and journalism, particularly his works covering his travels and his time fighting in the Spanish Civil War. His writing is celebrated for its piercing clarity, purpose and wit and his books continue to be bestsellers all over the world.

Also by George Orwell

1984
George Orwell: A BBC Radio Collection
Orwell on Freedom
Orwell on Truth
Burmese Days, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Coming Up for Air
George Orwell: A Life in Letters
Narrative Essays
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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
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