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Animal Farm George Orwell Secker & Warburg
Dystopian Fiction
Allegory
Satire
USD$3,087

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London: Secker and Warburg, 1945. [Literature] FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.92. Publisher's green cloth lettered in white. Neat ink inscription dated September 18th 1945 (one month after publication), contents and covers clean and fresh with the faintest of sunning to the spine, white lettering is bright without flaking. A fine copy of this literary high-spot, lacking the scarce jacket. Orwell's famous satire in fable form on Soviet totalitarianism and by extension, on all revolutions; a chilling little tale, which produced such arresting phrases as "All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.", "Four legs good, two legs bad", "Napoleon is always right." and "some animals are more equal than others." A major title, but with a particularly small printing of only 4500 copies; Anti-Soviet literature was controversial at this time (the victorious wartime Soviet-US-GB alliance was fresh in the mind), and Orwell's manuscript had already been rejected…

About Animal Farm

Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who revolt against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where animals can be equal, free, and just. However, the revolution is hijacked by the pigs, who become just as oppressive as the humans. Animal Farm is an allegory for the Russian Revolution and the subsequent Soviet Union.