Animal Fairm Illustratit edition by Thomas Clark sampler
George Orwell’s timeless novel Animal Farm, one of Time magazine’s 100 best English-language novels of all time, has been translated by Thomas Clark into Scots for the very first time. When the animals of Manor Farm revolt and take control from Mr Jones, they have hopes for a life of freedom and equality. However, when the pigs Napoleon and Snowball rise to power, the other animals discover that they may not be as equal as they had once thought. A tragic political allegory described by Orwell as being ‘the history of a revolution that went wrong’, this book is as relevant now – if not more so – as it was when it was first written.
George Orwell’s timeless novel Animal Farm, one of Time magazine’s 100 best English-language novels of all time, has been translated by Thomas Clark into Scots for the very first time.
When the animals of Manor Farm revolt and take control from Mr Jones, they have hopes for a life of freedom and equality. However, when the pigs Napoleon and Snowball rise to power, the other animals discover that they may not be as equal as they had once thought. A tragic political allegory described by Orwell as being ‘the history of a revolution that went wrong’, this book is as relevant now – if not more so – as it was when it was first written.
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thomas clark<br />
Thon’s the buik ah’ve ettled tae scrieve, an gin ah’ve gaed agley,<br />
no aw the owersetter’s notes in aw the warld will set thon richt.<br />
Ah wis hauf-an-hauf aboot localisin the settin mair<br />
specifically tae Scotland. Thon wid nae dout hae meant invitin<br />
ben tae the text a thrang o neologisms, coinages an oot-an-oot<br />
eccentricities, an makkit me a guid bit mair like Squealer wi<br />
his editorial pent-brush in the howdumdeid o nicht than ah’m<br />
content tae think masel. Onywey, Orwell’s pynt wis siccarly that<br />
it could aw happen onywhaur, an in case ye hadnae noticed,<br />
it has.<br />
As aye, the odd wird here an there has accumulatit a shrood<br />
o stour ower the years. Whaur the context disnae inform, the<br />
Dictionars o the Scots Leid at www.dsl.ac.uk will, ah howp.<br />
<strong>Thomas</strong> <strong>Clark</strong><br />
October 2022<br />
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