On Manor Farm, a group of animals overthrow their human owner to create a society built on equality. But as the pigs seize control, corruption and tyranny take root, mirroring the very oppression they sought to escape. George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a sharp political allegory and timeless satire that exposes the dangers of totalitarianism, propaganda, and the betrayal of revolutionary ideals.
Date: 1945 (United Kingdom)
Length: ~112 pages (varies by edition)
Cultural impact: ~20.000.000 copies (estimates)
Genre: Science Fiction, Politics & Society
"Animal Farm is George Orwell's true masterpiece... the book in which he tested his own ambition to 'make political writing into an art'" — Engelsberg Ideas, literary and cultural publication
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism... Animal Farm was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole" — George Orwell, author of Animal Farm and 1984
"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals" — Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister and writer
"The Farm is a work of genius which may well outlive the particular and (let us hope) temporary conditions that provoked it" — C. S. Lewis, author and literary critic
"[The manuscript shows] good writing and fundamental integrity" — T. S. Eliot, poet, critic, and publisher
"A highly favorable review comparing Orwell's satirical talent to the work of Swift and Voltaire" — Edmund Wilson, influential American literary critic and author
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