Animal Farm: A Fairy Story (Penguin audiobooks)

A political satire and propagandist warning, disguised as an animal fable. The events in the tale mirror those in Russian history between 1917 and 1945, including the chasing out of the Tsar and the gradual creation of Stalin's power.

Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia.