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Animal Farm 2 The British author George Orwell, pen name for Eric Blair, achieved prominence in the late 1940's as the author of two brilliant satires. He wrote documentaries, essays, and criticism during the 1930's and later established himself as one of the most important and influential voices of the century. Eric Arthur Blair (later George Orwell) was born in 1903 in the Indian Village Motihari, which lies near to the border of Nepal. At that time …

…reading Animal Farm lies in recognizing the double meanings, the political and historical parallels, in the story that George Orwell cleverly disguised through creative symbolism. Some critics say that Orwell^s satire is over-exaggerated. But to those critics I would ask then why did ^customs officials at the Moscow International Book Fair in 1987 clear the British exhibitors^ shelves of Animal Farm (Meyers, p.241).^ I believe there is no better certification of the book^s truth.