Animal Farm

Informationen zum Autor Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell , was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia . Klappentext Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in India in 1903. He was educated at Eton, served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, and worked in Britain as a private tutor, schoolteacher, bookshop assistant and journalist. In 1936, Orwell went to fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and was wounded. In 1938 he was admitted into a sanatorium and from then on was never fully fit. George Orwell died in London in 1950. Zusammenfassung When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control.

Product details

• Authors: Malcolm Bradbury, George Orwell
• Assisted by: Malcolm Bradbury (Introduction), Robert Colls (Introduction), Colls Robert (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 24.02.2000
• EAN: 9780141182704
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118270-4
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 8 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern Classics Paperbacks; Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Modern Classic; MC FICTION ENG; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics; MC FICTION ENG
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Satire, Narrative theme: Politics, Satirical fiction and parodies, Classic fiction: general and literary