![]() Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia, wrote that “The great sentence, ‘All animals are equal but some are more equal than others,’ bites deeper than the whole of 1984.” Margaret Atwood ( The Handmaid’s Tale), who first read Animal Farm when she was 9, wrote in a column for the Toronto Star in 1993 that “I was traumatized early in life by the death of that poor horse in Orwell’s Animal Farm, which I thought was going to be. One publisher told Orwell that “It is impossible to sell animal stories in the USA.” Ultimately, Animal Farm became a hit for Secker & Warburg. Jonathan Cape, Ernest Hemingway’s British publisher, rejected it after consulting with the wartime Ministry of Information. Eliot disdained its mockery of Stalin’s USSR, Britain’s then-World War II ally. Eliot, whose poetry inspired the musical Cats, rejected Animal Farm. Animal Farm was rejected by the biggest names in publishing.įaber and Faber editor T.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here are a few things you might not have known about Animal Farm. Orwell called Animal Farm “the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole.” It went on to find a spot on many school reading lists and cracked top-100 novel lists by Modern Library and TIME. Jones and wind up in a pig-led Communist dictatorship. On August 17, 1945, legendary British author George Orwell-who also penned 1984-published Animal Farm, a satirical allegory of Soviet Russia featuring animals who revolt against the farmer Mr. ![]()
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