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Animal farm : a fairy story / George Orwell.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Penguin English libraryPublication details: UK : Penguin Books, 2018.Description: 108 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780241341667 (pbk.) :
Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823.912 23
LOC classification:
  • PR6029.R8
Summary: 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. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode
Fiction The Harden Library, King's Hospital Fiction Section F ORW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available AR BL 7.3 R16447J0499

Facsimile of edition published: London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1945.

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. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another.

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