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Animal Farm
Animal Farm
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  • Introduction looking at the political circumstances, publishing history and initial reception of Orwell's fable.
  • An overview of the text's historical reception, showing, in particular, how it was enlisted to support the dogmatic certainties of the Cold War.
  • Detailed explanatory notes and select bibliography

  
'The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.'
  
When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another.
  
Animal Farm was one of George Orwell's most successful books - after its publication Orwell became one of the best-paid writers in England. Though the text continues to play a foundational role in the political education of young people across the world, its allegorical function has become more difficult to decode as the U.S.S.R recedes into the historical distance.

Index: 

Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
Chronology
Animal Farm
Explanatory Notes

About the author: 

George Orwell
Edited by David Dwan, Associate Professor in English, Hertford College, Oxford
  
David Dwan is an Associate Professor at Hertford College, Oxford. His books include Liberty, Equality and Humbug: George Orwell and Western Political Ideals (2018).

Product details

ISBN : 9780198813736

Author: 
George Orwell; David Dwan
Pages
144 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
129 x 196 mm
Pub date
Jan 2021
Series
Oxford World's Classics
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Animal Farm

Animal Farm

Animal Farm