Orwell, before the war ... “Men God Forgot,” by Albert Cossery (Circle Editions: George Leite, Berkeley, California), is one of those books—like “Canapé-Vert,” the curious novel ...

The texts invariably undergo a dramatic change. I decide to undertake the same exercise with George Orwell’s Animal Farm, in which, if you remember, the animals rebel against their master ...

He is easy to quote, but what would the iconoclastic British socialist really have thought about politics today?

That's right, George Orwell created this book with the intent to show people how the masses can be manipulated through propaganda. A seriously heavy topic that wouldn't be so easily digestible if ...

It is the story of a revolution on a farm and imagines what would happen if animals were in charge, rather than humans. The author, George Orwell, published Animal Farm in 1945. He was inspired by ...