Who is Eric Blair?

by Emon on March 12, 2008

It’s George Orwell, silly! An Englishman born in Bengal (ooh yeaah) he went on to write, and after many rejections, publish The Animal Farm. In this edition, Russell Baker discusses Orwell’s preface of the Ukranian version of the book, about the writing of this classic. Who are the feuding pigs based on?

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