The novel 'Animal Farm' was written by
- A.Aldous Huxley
- B.George Orwell
- C.H. G. Wells
- D.Thomas Hardy
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The correct answer is B, George Orwell. Animal Farm, published in 1945, is a short novel in which farm animals drive out their owner and set up their own rule, which soon turns into the tyranny they had overthrown. George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, and his other famous novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, appeared in 1949.
Option A, Aldous Huxley, wrote Brave New World, another famous novel of a controlled society, which makes it the closest distractor here. Option C, H. G. Wells, wrote scientific romances such as The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds. Option D, Thomas Hardy, wrote novels of rural England such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd. Keep the pair Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four under one name, Orwell.
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