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 ...

Mr. Orwell, before the war, was not widely known in America or even, I think, in England. He is one of several English writers who were only just beginning to be recognized in those years of ...

While most of us know George Orwell as an authoritative critic of totalitarianism, few people know he was a committed ...

Orwell’s two best known books reflect his life-long hatred for totalitarian governments. Animal Farm, a modern east fable attacking Stalinism, and Nineteen Eighty-Four, his nightmare vision of ...

An ambitious production both in terms of cast size and storyline, it was a stark reminder to be careful what you wish for, ...

Finally, the use of animals can serve as a cover, a means of escaping censorship, or of generalizing or universalizing. For ...

George Orwell's classic novel Animal Farm is to be translated into Scots. The book is one of nine titles to be published in the Scots language, with funding from the Scots Language Resource Network.

Gettysburg College’s Department of Theater Arts closed its last performance of “Animal Farm” on Oct. 27 over Parents’ Weekend ...