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f Universit; of Al berta Lib rary 0 16210 22t 95 0"1 21 GEORGE ORWELL animal FARM GEORGE ORWELL The animals on Mr. Jones’s farm stage a successful revolution, and take the place over. Their hopes, their plans, and their achievements form the subject of Animal Farm. In the first flush of enthusiasm there is set up a great commandment, All animals are equal, but unfortunately leadership devolves almost automati¬ cally on the pigs, who are on a higher intellectual level than the rest. The revolution begins to go wrong—yet at every step excellent excuses are always forthcoming for each perver¬ sion of the original doctrine. Mr. Orwell has a wonderful sym¬ pathy for most of his animal char¬ acters, and they are all very much alive. It is not only the fight be¬ tween the two pigs, Snowball and (Continued on back flap) HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY 383 Madison Avenue, New York 17 ANIMAL FARM ' ANIMAL FARM George Orwell HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTE OF CANADA INITITUT CANADIEN DES DROITS DE LA PERSONNE gli MtTGAUffi ST,, SUITE 30 OTTAWA, ONTARIO KIR IRl NEW YORK HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1946, BY HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form. i PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE HADDON CRAFTSMEN SCRANTON, PA. ANIMAL FARM ' UNIVERSITY library UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
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