One publisher told Orwell that “It is impossible to sell animal stories in the USA.” Ultimately, Animal Farm became a hit for Secker & Warburg. Jonathan Cape, Ernest Hemingway’s British publisher, rejected it after consulting with the wartime Ministry of Information. Eliot disdained its mockery of Stalin’s USSR, Britain’s then-World War II ally. Eliot, whose poetry inspired the musical Cats, rejected Animal Farm. Animal Farm was rejected by the biggest names in publishing.įaber and Faber editor T.S. Here are a few things you might not have known about Animal Farm. Orwell called Animal Farm “the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole.” It went on to find a spot on many school reading lists and cracked top-100 novel lists by Modern Library and TIME. Jones and wind up in a pig-led Communist dictatorship. On August 17, 1945, legendary British author George Orwell-who also penned 1984-published Animal Farm, a satirical allegory of Soviet Russia featuring animals who revolt against the farmer Mr.
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