Animal Farm

In Orwell's 1945 novella Animal Farm, barnyard animals rise up against the oppressive rule of human farmers and set about to create a better world for themselves. When two pigs, Snowball and Napoleon emerge as leaders of the new collective, a schism is created with dire implications for the erstwhile utopia. Orwell's satirical story of Revolutionary Russia and Stalinism is a classic of anti-authoritarianism protest literature.