When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their masterMr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is thebeginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually acunning, ruthless élite among them, masterminded by thepigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the otheranimals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought,and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny isreplaced with another. Orwell’s chilling ‘fairystory’ is a timeless and devastating satire of idealismbetrayed by power and corruption.
Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in India in 1903. Hewas educated at Eton, served with the Indian Imperial Police inBurma, and worked in Britain as a private tutor, schoolteacher,bookshop assistant and journalist. In 1936, Orwell went to fightfor the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and was wounded. In1938 he was admitted into a sanatorium and from then on was neverfully fit. George Orwell died in London in 1950.
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