Animal Farm

"When the animals depose their oppressor Mr Jones and install a socialist republic they find themselves 'happy as they had never conceived it possible to be'. But such happiness does not last, and the ideal of equality is bent out of shape. The pigs get their trotters on power, and the murderous boar Napoleon soon has a pile of corpses before his feet. In Animal Farm Orwell recorded his deep disillusionment with the USSR. As he wrote in 1947: 'Animal Farm is inteded as a satire on dictatorship in general, but, of course, the Russian Revolution is the chief target. It is humbug to pretend anything else.' By casting things as a fable or fairy tale, Orwell's satire travels well beyond Bolshevism. Animal Farm forces us to consider what the good society should look like, why it continues to be so elusive, and why we live in a world in which some animals remain more unequal than others. In this new edition, David Dwan presents the novel in the broader context of Orwell's critique of the Soviet state, setting out the political circumstances, publishing history, and initial reception of Orwell's fable." Klappentext.