George Orwell is regarded as the greatest political writer in English of the twentieth century. Chapters in this 2007 Companion address his positions on war and pacifism, patriotism, his anti-Communism and his status in the literary academy, among other topics. A detailed chronology of Orwell's life and work is also included. Notes on contributors
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Preface
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JOHN RODDEN
Chronology
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1 A political writer
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JOHN ROSSI AND JOHN RODDEN
2 Orwell and the biographers
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GORDON BOWKER
3 Englands His Englands
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JONATHAN ROSE
4 The truths of experience: Orwell's nonfiction of the 1930's
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MARGERY SABIN
5 The fictional realist: novels of the 1930's
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MICHAEL LEVENSON
6 Orwell's essays as a literary experience
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WILLIAM E. CAIN
7 My country, right or left': Orwell's patriotism
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JOHN ROSSI
8 Orwell and the British Left
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IAN WILLIAMS
9 Orwell, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust
112
JOHN NEWSINGER
10 Orwell, Socialism and the Cold War
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ROBERT CONQUEST
11 Animal Farm: history as fable
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MORRIS DICKSTEIN
12 Nineteen Eighty-Four: context and controversy
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BERNARD CRICK
13 Orwell, the academy and the intellectuals
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NEIL McLAUGHLIN
14 Orwell for today's reader: an open letter
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JOHN RODDEN
15 George Orwell: a bibliographic essay
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ERIKA GOTTLIEB
16 Why Orwell still matters
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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Further reading
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Index
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