The film with Leonardo DiCaprio catapulted this 1925 novella to additional well-deserved fame a few years ago. ![]() Yet somehow, I find myself thinking about the characters quite a lot, which is why it’s found its way onto this list. This was my GCSE English text and I’m not terribly enthusiastic about it. They keep themselves going by hopes of one day owning their own farm, but George soon realises that for them, the American Dream is nothing but a mirage. ![]() In this Depression-era 1937 novel, George and Lenny are a pair of itinerant workers looking for jobs in California. Eliot’s novella never captured my interest but Orwell’s is certainly worth a read. I read it at age 9 when my grandfather, an extraordinarily well-read man, sent it to me from Bangladesh along with Silas Marner. Orwell intended a mirror of the Russian Revolution and Stalin’s rule. ![]() The utopian existence they try to establish rapidly crumbles in the face of avarice and selfishness. An allegorical novel published in 1945, Animal Farm features an uprising by a group of animals against their human farmer.
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