by George Orwell · Penguin UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140008388
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«Animal Farm» is George Orwell's satirical fable, published by Penguin UK in paperback (128 pages, in English).
A group of farm animals expels its human owner and proclaims a society based on equality, but the new order becomes corrupted when the pigs assume power and rewrite the rules. The work is a political satire reflecting on revolution, the abuse of power, and the manipulation of ideals.
The novel was originally published in 1945 and is often read as an allegory of Stalin's Russia.
Common reading in schools and a classic for starting out in political fiction in English.
Eric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism, and support of democratic socialism.
