Animal Farm: Introduction by Julian Symons

One of Time magazine's 100 best English-language novels and the most famous of all twentieth-century political allegories • “A wise, compassionate, and illuminating fable for our times.” —The New York Times

This story of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind, is a universal drama. Taking as his starting point the betrayed promise of the Russian Revolution, Orwell lays out a vision that, in its bitter w...