Monday, March 30, 2009

Beasts of England

"'After all, your pigs are far more intelligent than the other animals, and therefore the best qualified to run the farm–in fact there couldn’t have been an Animal Farm at all without them: so that what was needed (someone might argue) was not more communism but more public-spirited pigs.'"

Richard Brooks in The Sunday Times reveals that T. S. Elliot, as a former director of Faber and Faber, rejected George Orwell's Animal Farm for publication in 1944.

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