Animal Farm & Burmese Days

Animal Farm is a satirical allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. Animal Farm, known at the beginning and the end of the novel as the Manor Farm, symbolizes Russia and the Soviet Union under Communist Party rule. But more generally, Animal Farm stands for any human society, be it capitalist, socialist, fascist, or communist. This is a brilliant and insightful story centred on the nature of racism and colonialism in Burma (now Myanmar) in the time...