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Animal Farm remains our great satire on the darker face of modern history." -Malcolm Bradbury
"As lucid as glass and quite as sharp...[
Animal Farm] has the double meaning, the sharp edge, and the lucidity of Swift." -
Atlantic Monthly "A wise, compassionate, and illuminating fable for our times." -
New York Times
"Orwell has worked out his theme with a simplicity, a wit, and a dryness that are close to La Fontaine and Gay, and has written in a prose so plain and spare, so admirably proportioned to his purpose, that Animal Farm even seems very creditable if we compare it with Voltaire and Swift." -Edmund Wilson,
The New Yorker "Orwell's satire here is amply broad, cleverly conceived, and delightfully written." -
San Francisco Chronicle "The book for everyone and Everyman, its brightness undimmed after fifty years." -Ruth Rendell
With an Introduction by Julian Symons
