"1984" is a kind of antipode to the second great dystopia of the 20th century - "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. What, in essence, is more terrible: a “consumer society” taken to the point of absurdity or a “society of ideas” taken to the absolute? According to Orwell, there is and cannot be anything more terrible than total lack of freedom... “Animal Farm” is a parable full of humor and sarcasm. Can a humble farm become a symbol of a totalitarian society? Of course yes. But... how will its “citizens” - animals doomed to slaughter - see this society? The book also includes essays from different years - “Literature and Totalitarianism”, “Writers and Leviathan”, “Notes on Nationalism” and others.