Since its publication in 1946, George Orwells fable of a workers revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingways?ÿThe Old Man and the Sea?ÿas the Shortest Serious Novel Its OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwells intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism,?ÿAnimal Farm?ÿis a […]
The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwells prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of “negative utopia”–a startlingly original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing, from the first sentence to the […]