Titles In This Set:
Animal Farm
1984
Animal Farm
All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others. Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell first published in England on 17 August 1945. The reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. Orwell wrote the book between November 1943 and February 1944 when the UK was in its wartime alliance with the Soviet Union and the British people and intelligentsia held Stalin in high esteem a phenomenon Orwell hated. This book is complete and unabridged.
1984
Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written.
