RALPH COSHAM, a British former journalist who changed careers to become a narrator and screen and stage actor, has performed in more than one hundred professional theater roles. Several of his narrations have been named "Audio Best of the Year" by Publisher's Weekly, and he has been a three-time nominee for the Audie Award.

George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture. It is an account of the bold struggle that transforms Mr. Jones's Manor Farm into Animal Farm, a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. Out of their cleverness, the pigs Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball emerge as leaders of the new community in a subtle evolution that bears an insidious familiarity. The climax is the brutal betrayal of the faithful horse Boxer, when totalitarian rule is reestablished with the bloodstained postscript to the founding slogan: But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others.