By Penguin:

‘It is the history of a revolution that went wrong — and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine’ wrote Orwell for the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945.

Contents:

• Animal Farm: A Fairy Story

George Orwell

• Introduction

by Malcolm Bradbury

• A Note on the Text

by Peter Davison

• Appendix I: 'The freedom of the press'

Orwell's Proposed Preface to Animal Farm

• Appendix II

Orwell's Preface to the Ukrainian Edition of Animal Farm