A timeless and devastating satire, Orwell’s chilling ‘fairy story’ exposes how idealism crumbles under the weight of power and corruption. The animals of Manor Farm rise up against their master Mr Jones, seizing control and dreaming of a future built on freedom and equality. Yet it is not long before a cunning and ruthless elite emerges — the pigs Napoleon and Snowball — who begin to consolidate their grip on the farm. As their authority grows, the other animals slowly realise that one form of tyranny has simply been replaced by another, and that they are not, and perhaps never were, as equal as they believed.
ISBN 13: 9780141182704
Author: George Orwell
