AnimalFarm_AFairyStory

Animal Farm: A Fairy Story George Orwell 1945 Cover illustration by Eric Seat ( www.ericseat.com ) This e -book was created for MobileRead ( www.mobileread.com ). The text is based on the Project Gutenberg Australia [PGA] version of “Animal Farm” (eBook No. 0100011 ). The two prefaces come from www.orwell.ru . The Signet Classic edition available at Google Books was used to check formatting and possible errors. This e -book does not reproduce any particular printed edition, but has gone through its own editing process. The Freedom of the Press This book was first thought of, so far as the central idea goes, in 1937, but was not written down until about the end of 1943. By the time when it came to be written it was obvious that there would be great difficulty in getting it published (in spite of the present book shortage which ensures that anything describable as a book will “sell”), and in the event it was refused by four publishers. Only one of these had any ideological motive. Two had been publishing anti-Russian books for years, and the other had no noticeable political colour. One publisher actually started by accepting the bo......