Animal Farm Author:George Orwell This remarkable book has been described in many ways- as a masterpiece...a fairy story...a brilliant satire...a frightening view of the future. A devastating attack on the pig-headed, gluttonous and avaricious rulers in an imaginary totalitarian state, it illuminates the range of human experience from love to hate, from comedy to tragedy. — "A wi... more »se, compassionate and illuminating fable for our time. The steadiness and lucidity of Orwell's wit are reminiscent of Anatole France and even of Swift." -New York Times