Animal Farm

A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming

idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress,

justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling

satiric fables ever penned –a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that

records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism

just as terrible.

When _Animal Farm_ was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its

target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is

attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of

George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously

fresh.