Animal Farm by George Orwell. Rejected by such eminent figures as Victor Gollancz, Jonathan Cape and T.S. Eliot (at Faber & Faber), Animal Farm was finally published to great acclaim by Martin Secker & Warburg on 17th August 1945 in an edition of 4,500 copies. One of the best established and widely read masterpieces of our time, it has sold since then many millions of copies in over 70 languages; and its immortal satire - 'contre Stalin' as Orwell himself wrote to his French translator - remains as vivid and relevant today as it was on first publication.
This special edition celebrates the 50th anniversary of Orwell's great work, complementing the text with a series of magnificent pictures by Ralph Steadman
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Animal Farm by George Orwell. Rejected by such eminent figures as Victor Gollancz, Jonathan Cape and T.S. Eliot (at Faber & Faber), Animal Farm was finally published to great acclaim by Martin Secker & Warburg on 17th August 1945 in an edition of 4,500 copies. One of the best established and widely read masterpieces of our time, it has sold since then many millions of copies in over 70 languages; and its immortal satire - 'contre Stalin' as Orwell himself wrote to his French translator - remains as vivid and relevant today as it was on first publication.
This special edition celebrates the 50th anniversary of Orwell's great work, complementing the text with a series of magnificent pictures by Ralph Steadman
Illustrated by Ralph Steadman