AnimalFarmand1984

Animal Farm and 1984 George Orwell HARCOURT, INC. Orlando Austin New York San Diego London Introduction THE TWO NOVELS THAT you now hold in your hands have become "modern classics" in every sense of both those terms. They are taught in many schools as examples of moral weight and political prescience, and they are still read for pleasure, excitement and instruction even by young people who have not been subject to adult inculcation. They contain several terms and expressions —"Thought Police," "Doublethink," "Newspeak," "Some animals are more equal than others"—that have entered our discourse as surely as "Catch 22." (Tina Turner's album "Private Dancer" even included a song written by David Bowie entitled 1984, replete with menacing references to mind-control and cruelty, which conveyed the vague but frightening premonition of a frigidly- controlled future, as apprehended by those to whom 1984 is a date in the remote but recent past.) In the less distant past, these books used to be banned in every country under Communist rule, and are still occasionally suppressed in the remaining single-party despotisms that disfigure the globe as I......