An allegorical novella about Stalinism - or any other dictatorship where the few reign over the many. The fable reflects the events that led up to the Russian revolution and then into the Stalinist era. Napoleon represents Stalin, Snowball Trotsky, Old Major can be seen as Karl Marx.
Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a critic of Stalinism and capitalism both.
Time magazine chose the book as one of the 100 best English novels. This is a learn edition with attached vocabulary.

This is my contribution to the Year of the Pig. It goes to manuma and hopefully back to me. I haven't read yet :)

goodness, another "must read" brougth to our meetup yesterday in Zürich by spy-there. It has been mentioned in the "alternative" press lately quite often, pointing to the fact that we ought to take it to hand in order to understand the going ons in our day and age..