'It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine', wrote Orwell for the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945. Orwell wrote it at the end of 1943, but it almost remained unpublished. Its savage attack on Stalin, at that time Britain's ally, led to it being refused by publisher after publisher. Orwell's simple, tragic fable, telling what happens when the animals drive out Mr Jones and attempt to run the farm themselves, has since become a world-famous classic.
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Fue novelista, periodista, crítico literario y articulista. Hoy se le considera uno de los mayores autores en lengua inglesa del siglo XX. Participó en la Guerra Civil española y formuló una dura crítica del estalinismo desde posiciones socialistas. Sus obras 1984 y Rebelión en la granja se han convertido en un referente histórico por su contundente oposición a los totalitarismos.