Animal Farm - published in 1945 when he was forty-two years old - is Orwell's eighth book. It was written during WWII after Orwell quit the BBC in 1943 and his wife Eileen was working in the Ministry of Information. They worked on the book together and it was a tragedy that it wasn't printed until five months after her death. It was considered too "anti-Stalin" and "anti-Communist" while "Uncle Joe" was England's friend. When it was finally published after the war (when Stalin was the enemy again) it was a worldwide success. ~ Jackie Jura

VISITING ORWELL'S ANIMAL FARM

The following excerpts compare Animal Farm to present-day events:

~ ANIMAL FARM 1954 MOVIE

~ MAJOR'S SPEECH IN ORWELL SPEAK

~ UK TERROR BILL FOR NATIONALS ("No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.")

~ ANIMAL FARM A BAD MOVIE

~ DID BOXER HAVE A NAME?

~ WAS FARMER JONES GARETH JONES?

~ SNOWBALL'S REVENGE ON ORWELL

~ MOSES & SUGARCANDY MOUNTAIN

~ BOXER AND THE PROLES

~ MAJOR SPEAKS FOR ORWELL

~ SNOWBALL IS OSADDAM