George Orwell
Subtitle: A Biography (New Casebooks)
Contributors: Graham Holderness (Editor); Bryan Loughrey (Editor); Nahem Yousaf (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: October 15, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780312214654
Subjects: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Orwell, George; Orwell, George, 1903-1950; Literature - Classics / Criticism; 1903-1950; Criticism and interpretation; Orwell, George,; Literary Criticism
First sentence: In the last scene of George Orwell's 'fairy tale', Animal Farm, the humbler animals peer through a window of the farmhouse to observe a horrible sight: the pigs who rule over them have grown indistinguishable from their temporary allies, the human farmers, whom they originally fought to overthrow.