Animal Farm: A Fairy Story

Overview:

  • Title: Animal Farm: A Fairy Story
  • Author: George Orwell
  • Year: Unknown
  • ISBN-10: 9780141182704
  • Publisher: Penguin Books
  • Price: £8.99
  • Pages: xxi+120
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: Animal Farm: A Fairy Story
  • Notes:
    Stated 30th printing of the 2000 edition, by number line. Title page:
    • "George Orwell [over] Animal Farm [over] A Fairy Story [over] with an Introduction by Malcolm Bradbury and [over] A Note on the Text by Peter Davison"
    • Penguin colophon [over] "Penguin Books"
    Copyright page:
    • "Penguin Classics"
    • "Published by the Penguin Group [over] Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R ORL, England"
    • "First published by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd 1945"
    • "Published in Penguin Books 1951"
    • "This edition first published by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd in the Complete Works of [over] George Orwell series 1987"
    • "Published in Penguin Books with an Introduction and a new Note on the Test [sic] 1989"
    • "Reprinted in Penguin Classics 2000"
    • Number line: "30"
    • "Copyright 1945 by Eric Blair"
    • "This edition copyright © the Estate of the late Sonia Brownell Orwell, 1987"
    • "Introduction copyright © Malcolm Bradbury, 1989"
    • "Note on the Text copyright © Peter Davison, 1989"
    • "Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc"
    • "978-0-141-18270-4"
    Back cover:
    • "Illustration by Marion Deuchars"
    • "U.K. £8.99, CAN. $16.99"
    • "ISBN 978-0-141-18270-4"
    • "Modern Classics" (also on spine)
    Introduction starts on unnumbered page v, finishes page xvii and is signed "Malcolm Bradbury". "A Note on the Text" starts on unnumbered page xviii, finishes on numbered page xxi and is signed "Peter Davison [over] Albany, London". Novel starts on unnumbered page 1, finishes on numbered page 102 and is signed "November 1943—February 1944". "The Freedom of the Press" is titled as such on unnumbered page 103. On the same page, above that title, is an uncredited paragraph titled "Appendix I [over] Orwell's Proposed Preface to Animal Farm". Orwell's essay on unnumbered page 114 is titled "Appendix II [over] Orwell's Preface to the Ukrainian Edition of Animal Farm". Semi-gloss cover.