Dec 20, 2009

Animal Farm | What Do I Read Next?

Child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim's National Book Award-winning The Uses of Enchantment (1976) examines the characteristics of the classic fairy tale and the importance of such stories in society.

George Orwell's essays, especially "Why I Write" (1947) and "Politics and the English Language" (1946), in which the author explains his dire need to express himself in words and how politicians and others misuse them, ending with a list of six principles for good writing.

Orwell's 1949 look at a terrifying future world dominated by a totalitarian state, 1984,...