Animal Farm

<p><i><b>All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.</b></i><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 <i>Animal Farm</i> was published to great acclaim by Martin Secker and Warburg on 17 August 1945. One reviewer wrote 'In a hundred years' time perhaps <i>Animal Farm</i> ... may simply be a fairy story: today it is a fairy story with a good deal of point.' <br><br><b>Seventy-five years since its first publication Orwell's immortal satire remains an unparalleled masterpiece and more relevant than ever.<br></b><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 <i>Nineteen Eighty-Four </i>and <i>Down and Out in Paris and London</i>.*</p>