The snub of the century


	The snub of the century

haraya

3-30-2009 12:39 PM

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literature, history, eliot, orwell, criticism, publishing, books

haraya says:

"It was T.S. Eliot himself who rejected George Orwell’s Animal Farm for publication by Faber and Faber..."

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6-21-2009 12:54 PM

Jorjor

The book is good, but every time they`ve tried to make it into a movie they`ve failed miserably because they keep tacking a "happy" ending onto it. The whole point of George Orwell`s dystopia is that at the end, things are no better (or in fact worse) than they were at the beginning. Also true of 1984.

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When Orwell submitted his novel, an allegory on Stalin’s dictatorship, Eliot
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