The book includes not only Orwell's legendary story-parable "Animal Farm", but also essays from different years – "Literature and totalitarianism", "Writers and Leviathan", "Notes on Nationalism" and others.What attracts the reader to the artistic and journalistic prose of this author, who is forbidden in totalitarian countries?First of all, the most acute problems of the political and cultural life of the 40s of the XX century, which continue to be relevant today. As well as objectivity in evaluating events and a vivid author's personality, multiplied by true literary skill.