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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in-lyins and aw yer yokin in the fauld, whit hae ye ever haed but<br />
yer scrimpit raitions and a staw?<br />
‘And even the unhertsome lifes we thole are no lat lea tae rax<br />
their naitural span. Masel, ah cannae peenge – ah’ve been wan<br />
o the seilie wans. Ah’m twal years auld, and hae begat mair as<br />
fower hunner bairns. Sic is for ordinar the life o a pig. But nae<br />
animal can win frae the ill-kyndit knife in the end. Youse youthfu<br />
grumphies that are hunkert doon in front o me, ilka yin o ye will<br />
screich yer lifes oot upon the block afore the year is oot. Tae thon<br />
horror we maun aw come – coos, pigs, hens, sheep, awbody.<br />
Even the horses and the dugs will dree nae better weird. You,<br />
Boxer, the verra day that yon muckle maucht o yours begins<br />
tae dwyne, Jones will sell ye tae the knacker, wha’ll gullie yer<br />
thrapple and bile ye doon for the tod-hoonds. As for the dugs,<br />
aince they growe bauchelt and gumsy, Jones ties a brick aroond<br />
their necks and droons them in the dub nearhaun.<br />
‘Is it no plain as parritch, then, ma feres, that aw the ills o<br />
this life o oors spang frae the tyranny o human fowk? Get shot<br />
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