George Orwell-Animal Farm. 1984. Gift book bound in leather

"Animal Farm"

A parable full of bitter irony and sarcasm. A tragic story of a community of animals that decided to get rid of the oppression of people, and fell under the fanatical power of pigs. This is Orwell's "Animal Farm". The story depicts the evolution of a community of naive revolutionaries-animals who expelled its owner, the cruel Mr. Jones, from the barnyard: from romantic freedom to the dictatorship of a treacherous and self-serving boar named Napoleon. In the story, Orwell showed the rebirth of revolutionary principles and programs, that is, a gradual transition from the ideas of universal equality and the construction of utopia to dictatorship and totalitarianism.

"1984" is the last book by George Orwell, he published it in 1949, a year before his death. The dystopian novel glorified the author and remains the gold standard of the genre. The action takes place in London, one of the main cities of the totalitarian superstate Oceania. A frighteningly detailed description of a society based on fear and oppression serves as the backdrop for one of the most vivid human stories in world literature. The plot focuses on the fate of a minor dissident party functionary Winston Smith and his dangerous affair with a colleague.

In the USSR, Orwell's book was banned until 1989: probably, the country's party leadership recognized the features of the Soviet system in the social system of Oceania. However, the society described by Orwell is not a copy of the totalitarian regimes known to him. "1984" is still read as an acute commentary on current events.