Animal Farm A Dystopian Beast Fable of Revolution, Propaganda, and the Corruption of Power

Animal Farm is Orwell's compact allegorical fable of revolution betrayed, in which the animals of Manor Farm overthrow human tyranny only to see their utopian hopes corrupted by the pigs' rise to power. Written in deceptively simple prose, with the clarity of a beast fable and the bite of political satire, the novella transposes the Russian Revolution and Stalinist consolidation into a pastoral English setting. Its slogans, rituals, revisions of memory, and manipulation of language expose how ideals of equality can be hollowed out by propaganda and fear. George Orwell, born Eric Arthur Blair, brought to the book a lifelong distrust of authoritarianism shaped by imperial service in Burma, poverty in Britain and France, reporting on industrial England, and, decisively, his experience fighting in the Spanish Civil War, where he witnessed factional repression on the Left. A democratic socialist, he wrote Animal Farm not as an attack on justice or revolution, but on totalitarian falsification. This edition is essential for readers interested in literature, history, or political ethics. Brief yet inexhaustible, Animal Farm rewards close reading and remains a lucid warning against the abuse of power.