Animal Farm and 1984

This volume brings together two of Orwell's best-known works of political fiction. Animal Farm is a short fable in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and try to build a fairer society, only to see their ideals slowly bent by those in charge. Nineteen Eighty-Four is a novel set in a future Britain ruled by a Party that watches its citizens, controls information and rewrites the past. Read together, the two books show Orwell's concern with power, propaganda and the abuse of language. They remain among the most widely read and discussed political works of the twentieth century.