Animal Farm

<p><em><strong>All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.</strong></em><br /><br />George Orwell's fable of revolutionary farm animals - the steadfast horses Boxer and Clover, the opportunistic pigs Snowball and Napoleon, and the deafening choir of sheep - who overthrow their elitist human master only to find themselves subject to a new authority, is one of the most famous warnings ever written. <br /><br />Rejected by such eminent publishing figures as Victor Gollancz, Jonathan Cape and T.S. Eliot due to its daringly open criticism of Stalin, <em>Animal Farm</em> was published to great acclaim by Martin Secker and Warburg on 17 August 1945. One reviewer wrote 'In a hundred years' time perhaps <em>Animal Farm</em> ... may simply be a fairy story: today it is a fairy story with a good deal of point.' <br /><br /><strong>Seventy-five years since its first publication, Orwell's immortal satire remains an unparalleled masterpiece and more relevant than ever.<br /></strong><br />The Authoritative Text. With an introduction by Christopher Hitchens.<br /><br />*The jacket of this stunning hardback edition features period artwork by Elizabeth Friedlander, one of Europe's pre-eminent 20th-century graphic designers. Look out for complementary editions of Orwell's essential works <em>Nineteen Eighty-Four </em>and <em>Down and Out in Paris and London</em>.*</p>