Books about Totalitarian States and Colonialism
Explore essential books about totalitarian states and colonialism, featuring Orwell's Animal Farm, Achebe's A Man of the People, and Greene's The Power and the Glory.
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A Man of the People
by Chinua Achebe
By the renowned author of "Things Fall Apart, this novel foreshadows the Nigerian coups of 1966 and shows the color and vivacity as well as the violence and corruption of a society making its own way between the two worlds.
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The Power and the Glory
by Graham Greene
A tormented, alcoholic priest is pursued by an idealistic lieutenant during an anti-clerical persecution in Mexico.
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Animal Farm
by George Orwell
George Orwell's famous satire of the Soviet Union, in which "all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."