High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Fredric John Warburg (November 27, 1898 - May 25, 1981) was an English publisher best known for his association with the British author George Orwell. During a career spanning a large part of the 20th century and ending in 1971, Warburg published Orwell`s Animal Farm (1945) as well as Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), and works by other leading figures such as Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka. Other notable publications include the controversial The Third Eye by Lobsang Rampa in 1956, Pierre Boulle`s classic The Bridge over the River Kwai, Adolf Hitler`s Mein Kampf, and William Shirer`s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1960).