Written more than 70 years ago, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier then ever... Animal Farm is Orwell's timless and timely allegorical novel - a scathing satire on a downtrodden society's blind march towards totalitarianism.