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Animal Farm

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Animal Farm
Authors and Contributors      By (author) George Orwell
Introduction by Robert Colls
SeriesPenguin Modern Classics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:144
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780141182704
ClassificationsDewey:823.912
Audience
General

Publishing Details
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
Publication Date 24 February 2000
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Having got rid of their human master, the animals in this political fable look forward to a life of freedom and plenty. But as a clever, ruthless elite takes control, the other animals find themselves hopelessly ensnared in the same old way.

Author Biography

Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in India in 1903. He was educated at Eton, served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, and worked in Britain as a private tutor, schoolteacher, bookshop assistant and journalist. In 1936, Orwell went to fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and was wounded. In 1938 he was admitted into a sanatorium and from then on was never fully fit. George Orwell died in London in 1950.