Animal Farm

When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning ruthless elite among them masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball starts to take control.|Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in India in 1903. He was educated at Eton served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma and worked in Britain as a private tutor schoolteacher bookshop assistant and journalist. In 1936 Orwell went to fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and was wounded. In 1938 he was admitted into a sanatorium and from then on was never fully fit. George Orwell died in London in 1950.|When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning ruthless élite among them masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another. Orwell's chilling 'fairy story' is a timeless and devastating satire of idealism betrayed by power and corruption.