Animal Fairm

About the Book: 

AW ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MAIR EQUAL THAN ITHERS

It didnae seem unco when Napoleon wis seen daunderin aboot the fairmhoose gairden wi a pipe in his mooth...

Frae the instant o its first publication ower seeventy year syne, Animal Fairm, in mony weys, has come tae be oor socio-political urtext – oor wan-singer-wan-sang, oor collective pairty piece, the script we’re doomed tae keep repeatin...

George Orwell’s faur-kent novel Animal Fairm, yin o Time magazine’s 100 brawest English-leid novels o aw time, has been translatit intae Scots for the verra first time by Thomas Clark. 

When the animals o Manor Fairm cast aff thirldom an tak control frae Mr Jones, they hae howps for a life o freedom an equality. But when the pigs Napoleon and Snawbaw rise tae pouer, the ither animals find oot that they’re mebbe no aw as equal as they’d aince thocht. A tragic political allegory described by Orwell as bein ‘the history o a revolution that went wrang’, this buik is as relevant noo – if no mair sae – as when it wis first set oot.

Reviews: 

This is a modern Scots masterpiece. ASHLEY DOUGLAS, Writer and translator

Bi ane o the skeeliest makars scrievin in Scots the day. BILLY KAY, Writer

[Animal Fairm] thus allows a large segment of the population of Scotland to appreciate Orwell's classic in a language that means much to them. It should also serve as a very useful primer for others whose acquaintance with the language is more passing but who want to gain a better understanding of it. UNDISCOVERED SCOTLAND

The Note and his Introduction… aside from his wry, self-deprecating humour, they made me keen to learn more about the language, to learn to read it better, not just read his translation. IAN CHADWICK

About the Author:

THOMAS CLARK is a Scots writer, poet and translator. He is best known for his work in translating A Series of

Unfortunate Events, Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. He was co-founder of the Scots literary magazine Eemis Stane. He also was the co-translator of the Scots version of the web browser Firefox.

GEORGE ORWELL was a novelist, essayist, reporter and critic who lived from 1903-1950. He produced different literary criticisms, fiction, and poems alongside his polemical journalism.

Orwell is most well known for his novela Animal Farm and his novel Nineteen Eight-Four and is a highly respected writer who remains extremely influential in today’s popular culture. His name has even become an adjective - ‘Orwellian’ - to describe totalitarian and authoritarian societies in English language.

He has been ranked among the ‘50 greatest British writers since 1945’ by The Times (2008).