Public-Spirited Pigs

George Orwell's Animal Farm was rejected by Faber & Faber before being published a years later by another publisher.

The editor who wrote the rejection was TS Eliot.

"Eliot wrote: “After all, your pigs are far more intelligent than the other animals, and therefore the best qualified to run the farm – in fact there couldn’t have been an Animal Farm at all without them: so that what was needed (someone might argue) was not more communism but more public-spirited pigs.”"