Animal Farm

Manor Farm is an English farm with a drunken owner, Mr Jones, incompetent workers, and oppressed animals. Tired of their human masters' ignorance, the animals rebel and take over the farm. Snowball and Napoleon, pigs who are intellectually superior, lead the animals as they try to control their own future and remove the unfairness in their lives. Over time, however, the animals see that events are not going as they expected. The book is a simple barnyard story and a savage political satire about corrupted ideals, misdirected revolutions, and class conflict.

Why You Should Read?

• Meet Mr Jones, the drunken owner of Manor Farm, and the oppressed animals who live there.
• Follow the animals as they rebel against their human masters and take over the farm.
• Explore how Snowball and Napoleon, two pigs, lead the animals after the rebellion.

About the Author

George Orwell was an English writer of novels, poetry, essays, journalism, and criticism. His writing is marked by clear prose, social criticism, hostility to totalitarianism, and support for democratic socialism. He is best known for Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, and he also wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction, and political journalism. His non-fiction includes The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia. In 2008, The Times ranked Orwell second among British writers since 1945.