George Orwell (real name Eric Arthur Blair, 1903-1950) was an English writer and journalist. His work is marked by a profound consciousness of social injustice, an intense dislike of totalitarianism, and a passion for clarity in language.
"Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" (1945) is one of the key works (together with "1984") by Orwell. It is a fable, a satire, an allegory about how the high ideals of the Russian Revolution were degraded into totalitaranism. Orwell himself had communist convictions, so this is not a work against communism, on the contrary, it tries to dissociate totalitaranism from communism.
This is another ePUB test. I guess I have the format a bit more under control now. The text comes from Project Gutenberg Australia, and I added two prefaces (the one Orwell proposed for the original edition, plus a preface for the Ukrainian translation). The usual TOC, curly quotes, etc. are there too.
By the way, the (great) cover image is by Eric Seat (
www.ericseat.com), used with permission.
The book is hand-coded and formatted with CSS, let's hope the readers can handle it. For those wanting to read this in a web browser, I upload an index.zip file: just unzip this and the .epub file in the same directory, and open index.html (and modify index.css if you like).
Any kind of feedback is welcome.
EDIT (v2): Oops! The date is 1945, not 1495
EDIT (v3): Oops(2)! I just realized there was a problem with the hyperlinks to the notes (I was using the "name" atribute instead of "id").
EDIT (v4): Two required elements were missing from the .ncx file.
EDIT (v5): Updated to support the epub2pdf script.
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