Animal farm: a fairy story
Material type: TextPublication details: New York Penguin Books 1989Description: 95pISBN: 9780140126709Subject(s): English fiction | Domestic animals--Fiction | Totalitarianism--Fiction | London (England)--Fiction | Political fiction | Science fiction | Dystopias | Satire | FablesDDC classification: 823.912 Summary: 'It is the history of a revolution that went wrong- and of the excellent excuses that were forth coming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine. Wrote Orwell in the original blurb for the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945. His simple and tragic fable, telling what happens when the animals drive out Mr. Jones and attempt to run that farm themselves, has since become a world-famous classic of English prose.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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BK | Stack | Stack | 823.912 ORW/A (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 40251 |
'It is the history of a revolution that went wrong- and of the excellent excuses that were forth coming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine.
Wrote Orwell in the original blurb for the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945. His simple and tragic fable, telling what happens when the animals drive out Mr. Jones and attempt to run that farm themselves, has since become a world-famous classic of English prose.
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