This short, powerful work is everything a political satire should be. Orwell’s prose is elegant, his wit is incisive and his message is abundantly clear. A working knowledge of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath adds an extra dimension to the work, but it’s quite comprehensible without that ...
The version of Animal Farm I read included illustrations by Ralph Steadman. After reading this, I am of the opinion that all of my books should have illustrations. Why did we give this up? Because we matured? Because intelligent minds don’t require pictures with their words? Maybe because of publish...
"When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself: 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I write it because there is some lie I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing." - OrwellBeing the budding humanities student that I am, An...
Once upon a time, there was a little farm, with little animals that got tired of serving a man, so they formed their own society and most of them ended up being exploited by their animal leaders. This may sound like a simple story, but there's a bit more; it's not tough to see. An honest idea that ...
I don't know for sure, but this book, could very well be, the best book that I have read (if such a sentence does exist, in fact). It is a horrid description of evolution of human beings, a painfully honest observation of our own kind. Abundant in rich allegory, while seeping through your mind it ma...
“All animals are equals, but some animals are more equal than others" “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” Orwell, out.
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