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T. S. Eliot and Animal Farm
So T. S. Eliot, when he was a senior editor at Faber & Faber, turned down Orwell’s Animal Farm : It is regularly voted one of the best books of all time, a timeless piece of satire which has never gone out of print in the 64 years since it was first published. But when George Orwell ...
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politico.com — Seen last night hamming it up at Union Station: Eliot and Silda Spitzer. (Eliot was hamming, Silda... was not.) They were waiting for someone to depart off of a Perryville train, we hear, and shopped at FYE and Hudson News. "Various people were going ... (more) Eliot Spitzer in D.C.
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Orwell's Rejection Slip
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Alan Jacobs weighs in on news that T.S. Eliot refused to publish Animal Farm for political reasons (the Russians were WWII allies at the time). Larison responds: Would Animal Farm have offended the Soviets? I assume that it would have to have been offensive to them and was offensive, but why should a publishing house in the West care about that? What a telling and sad statement about the power of wartime political correctness that even a mind such as Eliot’s, which obviously had zero sympathy for the system being attacked in the novel, ...

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T. S. Eliot on Animal Farm: they need more public-spirited pigsBetsy's Page
Here is a lovely literary tidbit. The poet, T.S. Eliot's widow has released some of his papers, and among them is this letter he wrote concerning George Orwell's dystopian novel, Animal Farm. Apparently, Eliot didn't like the way the allegory depicted how the Stalin-like pig, Napoleon, perverted ...