'ANIMAL FARM'

Written by GEORGE ORWELL

Concept llustrations

"He was twelve years old and had lately grown rather stout, but he was still a majestic-looking pig"

"At this there was a terrible baying sound outside, and nine enormous dogs wearing brass-studded collars came bounding into the barn. They dashed straight for Snowball, who only sprang from his place just in time to escape their snapping jaws."

“It was a moonlit night. At the foot of the end wall of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written, there lay a ladder broken in two pieces. Squealer, temporarily stunned, was sprawling beside it, and near at hand there lay a lantern, a paint-brush, and an overturned pot of white paint.”

"and out came Napoleon himself, majestically upright, casting haughty glances from side to side, and with his dogs gambolling round him"

“Boxer refused to take even a day off work, and made it a point of honour not to let it be seen that he was in pain. In the evenings he would admit privately to Clover that the hoof troubled him a great deal.”