Animal Farm
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In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. The Soviet Union
had become Britain's ally in the war against Nazi Germany, and
criticism of Stalin's brutal regime was either censored or
discouraged. In any case, many intellectuals on the left still
celebrated the Soviet Union, claiming that the terrors of its show
trials, summary executions and secret police were either
exaggerated or necessary. But, to Orwell, Stalin was always a
"disgusting murderer" and he wanted to remind people of this fact
in a powerful and memorable way. But how to do it? A political
essay would never reach a wide enough audience, a traditional novel
would take too long to write. Orwell hit on the inspired idea of
combining the moralism of the traditional 'beast fable' with the
satire of Gulliver's Travels. A group of farmyard animals, led by
the pigs, overthrow their human masters. Their revolution is
inspired by high ideals: the farm will be run in the interests of
its animals with no more slaughtering, plenty of food for all and
comfort in retirement. But when Napoleon the pig takes command, he
quickly corrupts their principles, creating a new tyranny worse
than the old. Orwell wrote Animal Farm in the middle of the Second
World War, but at first no publishers wanted to touch it. It was
finally published in August 1945, once the war was over. This
little book quickly became a seminal text in the emerging 'cold
war' (a phrase that Orwell himself coined). It also became a site
of that conflict itself, suffering various attempts to subvert or
change its meaning. Today, Animal Farm remains a powerful fable
about the nature of tyranny and corruption which applies for all
ages. Our edition also includes the following essays: Shooting an
Elephant, Charles Dickens, Inside the Whale, The Frontiers of Art
and Propaganda, Literature and Totalitarianism, Fascism and
Democracy, Patriots and Revolutionaries, Catastrophic Gradualism,
Some Thoughts on the Common Toad, Why I Write, Writers and
Leviathan
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