A farmyard rebellion turns into a study of how power corrupts the people who promised to abolish it. George Orwell's short novel follows the animals of a mistreated farm as they seize control and write their own laws.
The story moves from hopeful slogans and shared labour to quiet rewrites of the rules, and the plain fable form keeps the political argument readable for a school student and a first-time reader of political fiction alike. Written in the shadow of Stalinist Russia, it has kept its bite wherever authority claims to speak for the people it governs.
What to expect:
• A compact allegory that can be finished in a single sitting
• Satire aimed at propaganda, slogans and rewritten history
• Animal characters standing in for recognisable political roles
• Paperback format suited to classroom sets and everyday carrying
Recommended for students of literature and politics, book clubs and readers building a shelf of twentieth-century classics, available at Boipoka.