TY - BOOK AU - Orwell, George TI - Animal farm: a fairy story SN - 9780140126709 U1 - 823.912 PY - 1989/// CY - New York PB - Penguin Books KW - English fiction KW - Domestic animals--Fiction KW - Totalitarianism--Fiction KW - London (England)--Fiction KW - Political fiction KW - Science fiction KW - Dystopias KW - Satire KW - Fables N2 - '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 ER -