SynopsisAnimal Farm is a story of an English Farm ‘Manor’, owned by Mr. Jones. The drunken owner and his incompetent and lazy workers ill-treat the animals and one day forget to feed them. Fed up with the ignorance of their human masters, the animals rise up in rebellion and take over the farm, under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Snowball. Now called as the ‘Animal Farm’, they vow to eliminate the terrible inequalities of all the inhabitants and work for their welfare. But as time passes, the ideals of the rebellion are corrupted, then forgotten. And then the story takes an unexpected turn._x000D_
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Animal Farm is an allegorical fiction and a classic political satire on Russian revolution and on the corrupting influence of power. The novel is as valid today as it was when it was written in 1943. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. _x000D_
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Time magazine chose the book as one of the 100 best English-language novels (1923 to 2005); it also featured at number 31 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels. It won a Retrospective Hugo Award in 1996._x000D_
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Embassy Books proudly presents this book as part of the Embassy Classics Series, which comprises of some of the finest literary works of great authors._x000D_
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About the author
Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in 1903 in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. The family moved to England in 1907 and in 1917 Orwell entered Eton, where he contributed regularly to the various college magazines. From 1922 to 1927 he served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, an experience that inspired his first novel, Burmese Days (1934). Several years of poverty followed. He lived in Paris for two years before returning to England, where he worked successively as a private tutor, schoolteacher and bookshop assistant, and contributed reviews and articles to a number of periodicals. Down and Out in Paris and London was published in 1933. In 1936 he was commissioned by Victor Gollancz to visit areas of mass unemployment in Lancashire and Yorkshire, and The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) is a powerful description of the poverty he saw there. At the end of 1936 Orwell went to Spain to fight for the Republicans and was wounded. Homage to Catalonia is his account of the civil war. He was admitted to a sanatorium in 1938 and from then on was never fully fit. He spent six months in Morocco and there wrote Coming Up for Air. During the Second World War he served in the Home Guard and worked for the BBC Eastern Service from 1941 to 1943. As literary editor of the Tribune he contributed a regular page of political and literary commentary, and he also wrote for the Observer and later for the Manchester Evening News. His unique political allegory, Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. George Orwell died in London in January 1950.
