title: Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four
author: George Orwell
description: <b>George Orwell</b> (1903&ndash;1950) served with the Imperial Police in Burma, fought with the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, and was a member of the Home Guard and a writer for the BBC during World War II. He is the author of many works of nonfiction and fiction. He is best known for his novels <i>1984 </i>and <i>Animal Farm</i>.
zlib_text: Animal Farm:  
  A Fairy Story
  
  George Orwell
  
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  1945
  
  Cover illustration by Eric Seat  
  ([www.ericseat.com](http://www.ericseat.com/))
  
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  The text is based on the Project Gutenberg Australia [PGA] version of “Animal
  Farm” (eBook No. [0100011](http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100011.txt)). The
  two prefaces come from
  [www.orwell.ru](http://www.orwell.ru/library/novels/Animal_Farm/english/). The
  Signet Classic edition available at [Google
  Books](http://books.google.com/books?id=SGAZdjNfruYC) 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 writ