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Animal Farm

The Illustrated Edition
By George Orwell
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Animal Farm is a satirical fable set on a farm where the animals overthrow their human owner in pursuit of an equal society. As the pigs assume leadership, they gradually become indistinguishable from the humans they replaced, illustrating the corruption of ideals and the allure of power. The story allegorically critiques totalitarian regimes and explores themes of power, manipulation, and betrayal.
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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...

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The first illustrated edition of Animal Farm, based on the famous 1955 animation.

2015 marks the 70th anniversary of Animal Farm. To commemorate this important anniversary, Penguin Classics is republishing the classic illustrated Animal Farm by Joy Batchelor and John Halas.

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. But gradually, a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. 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.

Orwell's chilling fairy story is a timeless and devastating satire of idealism betrayed by power and corruption.

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

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ISBN: 9780241196687

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 August 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 120g

Pages: 128

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Fiction General Fiction George Orwell Literary Fiction Most Popular Books of All Time Penguin Books Penguin Classics Series: Penguin Modern Classics

About the Author

Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia.

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