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Donkey and pigs from the 1954 film Animal Farm. Photograph: Halas & Batchelor
Donkey and pigs from the 1954 film Animal Farm. Photograph: Halas & Batchelor

Christopher Hitchens re-reads Animal Farm

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Still outlawed by regimes around the world, Animal Farm has always been political dynamite – so much so, it was nearly never published. Christopher Hitchens on George Orwell's timeless, transcendent 'fairy story'

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A new edition of Animal Farm is published this week by Harvill Secker (£10.99)

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