Orwell, George

Animal farm : a fairy story / George Orwell. - London : Penguin, 2008, c1987. - viii, 94 p. ; 18 cm.

First published in London : Martin Secker & Warburg, 1945. Used in ENG 621 and ENG 631.

Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Wellington leads to the animals taking over the farm. Vowing to eliminate the terrible inequities of the farmyard, the renamed Animal Farm is organized to benefit all who walk on four legs. But as time passes, the ideals of the rebellion are corrupted, then forgotten. And something new and unexpected emerges. "Animal Farm" - the history of a revolution that went wrong - is George Orwell's brilliant satire on the corrupting influence of power.

ISBN: 9780141036137 9780140126709

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Political corruption -- Fiction.
Leadership -- Fiction.
Domestic animals -- Fiction.
Totalitarianism -- Fiction.