ANIMAL FARM

Opis produktu

George Orwell (19031950) is one of Englands most famous writers and social commentators. He is the author of the classic political satire Animal Farm and the dystopian masterpiece Nineteen EightyFour. He is also well known for his essays and journalism particularly his works covering his travels and his time fighting in the Spanish Civil War. His writing is celebrated for its piercing clarity purpose and wit and his books continue to be bestsellers all over the world.Volume 8 of The Complete Works of George OrwellRejected by such eminent figures as Victor Gollancz and T.S. Eliot (for Faber & Faber) and by Jonathan Cape (influenced by śan important official at the Ministry of Information) Animal Farm was published to great acclaim by Martin Secker & Warburg on 17 August 1945 in an edition of 4500 copies. Orwells immortal satire ścontre Stalin as himself wrote to his French translator is as vivid and pungent today as it was on its first publication and can be read on many levels. Orwell subtitled the book śA Fairy Story a genre in which he was keenly interested. It combines the posterpaint clarity of fable with the dark and mordant tones of a bitter political allegory. Animal Farm is indisputably a masterpiece and places Orwell firmly in the great satirical tradition of Swift and Defoe. This edition incorporates all Orwells changes and reproduces his introduction śThe Freedom of the press which in the event he withdrew and the preface to the Ukrainian edition in its complete form written at the request of the Ukrainian Displaced Persons Organisation in Munich. Also published here for the first time is Orwells dramatisation of Animal Farm for BBC Radio (1947).

Data Publikacji: 1999-07-15
Wymiary: 242 mm 165 mm 98 mm 575 gr