Animal Farm. by Orwell, George - 1949

London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. First 'Cheap Edition' of Orwell's timeless allegorical novel--a scathing satire on a downtrodden society's blind march towards totalitarianism. Octavo, original green cloth. Near fine a very good dust jacket with a closed tear to the crown of the spine. Name to the front free endpaper. "A political fable that partly recounts, in an allegorical mode, the aftermath of the Russian revolution, and partly illustrates a belief in the universal tendency of power to corrupt" (Stringer, 22)." Animal Farm is [Orwell’s] masterpiece" (Connolly 93). Time Magazine chose it as one of the 100 best English-language novels (1923 to 2005); it also featured at number 31 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels. It won a Retrospective Hugo Award in 1996, and is included in the Great Books of the Western World selection.