First published in Great Britain in 1945
This edition first published 1987
This Compact Books edition first published in 1993
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Compact Books is part of Reed Consumer Books Ltd
Michelin House, 81 Fulham Road, London SW3 6RB
and Auckland, Melbourne, Singapore and Toronto
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Copyright (c) the estate of the late Sonia Brownell Orwell,
1945, 1965, 1987, 1993
ISBN 0-7493-1724-8
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This edition incorporates all of George Orwell's textual
changes and restores his original intenion, following the
Complete Works of George Orwell, edited by Peter Davison,
first published by Secker and Warburg in 1987.
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Printed and bound in Finland
by Werner Söderström, Osakeyhtiö
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Jacket photograph Andy Rumball
Author photograph © Popperfoto