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Animal Fairm [Animal Farm in Scots]

Illustratit Edition

George Orwell author Thomas Clark translator Bob Dewar illustrator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Luath Press Ltd

Published:30th Jan '23

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Animal Fairm [Animal Farm in Scots] cover

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.


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

  • Winner of Scots Book o the Year at the Scots Language Awards 2023 (UK)

ISBN: 9781804250518

Dimensions: 198mm x 135mm x 12mm

Weight: unknown

128 pages