Nineteen Eighty-Four & Animal Farm

Winston Smith is an average citizen who is of the middle-class in the super-state of Oceania. Specifically, he lives on Airstrip One, and he is an editor for the Ministry of Truth. The problem, however, with Mr. Smith is that he loathes the Party, which ultimately lands him in trouble with the authorities.

Nineteen Eighty-Four (June 8, 1949) is a political fiction novel that depicts the horror and dystopian nature of totalitarianism. The novel defines the totalitarian state and all its characteristics from its lies, hypocrisy, and more, and has gained its importance in the discourse of modern politics and the rise of Neo-Totalitarianism in the 21st century. The comparison of modern regimes has most of all allowed a sharp criticism as being ‘Orwellian’ through comparison of this novel and the not-so-fictional reality presented by the author.

Animal Farm (August 17, 1945) is an allegorical fiction novella based on the Russian Revolution, that speaks on the oppression of the hardworking farm animals of Manor Farm, the revolt of the animals, and subsequent rule of animal over animal, which descends from the ideals at the start of the revolution to a dictatorship worse than the previous oppression at the hands of humans. The discourse and comparison on politics in Russia from 1917-1945 is meant to demonstrate the futile nature of populism over the wickedness that power brings to a person.

Both works included in this Whitewolf Classic contain the original English text that was published in the 1940s.