Animal Farm is an allegorical novel. It tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer. With flaming idealism and rousing slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice and equality a place where one can live equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, however, the uprising is betrayed and the farm ends up in a state worse than it was before, under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon. According to Orwell, the fable reflects events that led to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union being a warning against any totalitarian regime to this day. | In addition to being a brilliant political allegory, this book is incredibly emotionally moving, beautifully written, eloquent, and profound. Time Magazine selected Animal Farm as one of the 100 best English-language novels.
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George Orwell (1903-50) was born in Bengal and educated in Eton. After serving in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, he returned to Europe to make a living writing novels and essays. He was essentially a political writer, a man of intense emotion and a desire for justice. As an opponent of totalitarianism, he wrote essays, political satires such as Animal Farm and his incomparable clairvoyant dystopia 1984.
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