George Orwell

Animal Farm

£49.95

Illustrated By Quentin Blake

Orwell’s biting fable of revolution and betrayal comes to life with Quentin Blake’s brilliantly expressive illustrations, capturing the dark wit and chilling truth at the heart of this unforgettable classic.

Animal Farm

£49.95
Book Details
 
Presentation Box & BindingFull bound in textured paper printed with design by Quentin Blake
Slipcase blocked with new design by Quentin Blake
Dimensions9 inches x 6 ¼ inches
FontTypeset in Berling with Quentin Blake lettering as display
Pages112 pages
AuthorGeorge Orwell
Illustrated ByQuentin Blake
Illustration27 integrated illustrations and a colour frontis
Publication Date06/05/2025
Editor's Notes
 
Animal Farm is one of the greatest and most enduring novels of the 20th century. Eighty years after its publication, it remains a key fixture on school curriculums and a sharp, timeless parable of the modern world. Illustrated by the renowned Quentin Blake, this edition is filled with satirical sketches of cruel humans, subservient animals and, of course, the infamous pigs.

Reissued in a gilded slipcase with a new, colourful frontispiece, this enhanced Folio edition preserves the original black-and-white illustrations and binding design. A must-have for any bookshelf, it pairs Orwell's masterful storytelling with Blake's legendary illustration.
Synopsis
 
The animals of Manor Farm rise up against their human master, dreaming of a society where all are equal and free. At first, their revolution brings hope — but power has a way of twisting ideals. As the pigs take control, promising a better future, the farm slips into tyranny. Lies replace truth, fear replaces freedom, and those who once fought for justice become the oppressors

About the illustrator

Quentin Blake

Born in Kent in 1932, Quentin Blake is an artist, writer and illustrator who has worked on more than 300 books and won numerous awards, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration and the Kate Greenaway Medal. He is perhaps most famous for his long and fruitful collaboration with Roald Dahl, whose children’s books he illustrated from 1975 until Dahl’s death in 1990. In 1999, Blake was appointed the first Children’s Laureate and he is a patron of the Association of Illustrators.

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About the illustrator

Quentin Blake

Born in Kent in 1932, Quentin Blake is an artist, writer and illustrator who has worked on more than 300 books and won numerous awards, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration and the Kate Greenaway Medal. He is perhaps most famous for his long and fruitful collaboration with Roald Dahl, whose children’s books he illustrated from 1975 until Dahl’s death in 1990. In 1999, Blake was appointed the first Children’s Laureate and he is a patron of the Association of Illustrators.

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About the illustrator

Quentin Blake

Born in Kent in 1932, Quentin Blake is an artist, writer and illustrator who has worked on more than 300 books and won numerous awards, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration and the Kate Greenaway Medal. He is perhaps most famous for his long and fruitful collaboration with Roald Dahl, whose children’s books he illustrated from 1975 until Dahl’s death in 1990. In 1999, Blake was appointed the first Children’s Laureate and he is a patron of the Association of Illustrators.

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About the illustrator

Quentin Blake

Born in Kent in 1932, Quentin Blake is an artist, writer and illustrator who has worked on more than 300 books and won numerous awards, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration and the Kate Greenaway Medal. He is perhaps most famous for his long and fruitful collaboration with Roald Dahl, whose children’s books he illustrated from 1975 until Dahl’s death in 1990. In 1999, Blake was appointed the first Children’s Laureate and he is a patron of the Association of Illustrators.

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About the illustrator

Quentin Blake

Born in Kent in 1932, Quentin Blake is an artist, writer and illustrator who has worked on more than 300 books and won numerous awards, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration and the Kate Greenaway Medal. He is perhaps most famous for his long and fruitful collaboration with Roald Dahl, whose children’s books he illustrated from 1975 until Dahl’s death in 1990. In 1999, Blake was appointed the first Children’s Laureate and he is a patron of the Association of Illustrators.

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About the illustrator

Quentin Blake

Born in Kent in 1932, Quentin Blake is an artist, writer and illustrator who has worked on more than 300 books and won numerous awards, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration and the Kate Greenaway Medal. He is perhaps most famous for his long and fruitful collaboration with Roald Dahl, whose children’s books he illustrated from 1975 until Dahl’s death in 1990. In 1999, Blake was appointed the first Children’s Laureate and he is a patron of the Association of Illustrators.

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About the Author

George Orwell (1903–50) was born Eric Arthur Blair in Motihari, India (where his father worked for the Civil Service) into what he would later call a ‘lower-upper-middle class’ family. The family returned to England in 1907 and, after studying at Eton, Orwell joined the Indian Imperial Police Force in Burma. Whilst in Burma he developed a critical attitude towards authority, which he evoked in his first novel, Burmese Days (1934). He resigned from the police force in 1927 and took to exploring the poverty of his home country with a view to becoming a writer. He lived in Paris for two years before returning to England, where he worked successively as a private tutor, schoolteacher and bookshop assistant, and contributed reviews and articles to a number of periodicals.

His first work of non-fiction, Down and Out in Paris and London , was published in 1936, and in the same year he was commissioned by Victor Gollancz to visit areas of mass unemployment in Lancashire and Yorkshire. The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) was his powerful description of the poverty he saw there. He fought in the Spanish Civil War, experiencing the factionalism breaking apart the Republican cause and became virulently anti-Communist, a stance reflected in his Homage to Catalonia (1938). During the Second World War Orwell served in the Home Guard and worked for the BBC Eastern Service. As literary editor of Tribune , he contributed a regular page of political and literary commentary and also wrote for The Observer and Manchester Evening News . His political satire Animal Farm was published shortly after the end of the war in 1945, and it was this novel, together with Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949, Folio 2014), that brought him worldwide fame. Orwell’s letters and diaries have been published posthumously by The Folio Society as an exclusive edition, selected and introduced by Orwell expert Peter Davison.