INDEX
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Acton, Harold
Amis, Kingsley
Angus, Ian
Astor, David
Auden, W. H., “September 1, 1939,” “Spain,”
Aung Maung Htin
Aung San Suu Kyi
Ayer, A. J.
Bernanos, Georges
Blair, Richard
Blake, William
Blunden, Edmund, Cricket Country
Borkenau, Franz, The Spanish Cockpit
Bowker, Gordon
Brockway, Fenner, Inside the Left
Brombert, Victor
Brooke, Rupert, “The Old Vicarage, Grantchester,”
Burckhardt, Jakob
Burnham, James, The Managerial Revolution
Camus, Albert, The Plague
Cary, Joyce
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, Voyage to the End of Night
Chaplin, Charles, The Great Dictator
Chesterton, G. K.
Connolly, Cyril, Enemies of Promise, The Rock-Pool
Conrad, Joseph, Lord Jim, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes
Crick, Bernard
Daily Worker
Dakin, Lucy
Davison, Peter
Deutscher, Isaac
Dickens, Charles, David Copperfield, Hard Times, Nicholas Nickleby
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov, Notes from Underground
Durrell, Lawrence
Eliot, T. S., The Waste Land
Empson, William
Faulkner, William, The Hamlet
Fen, Elisaveta, A Russian's England
Fenwick, Gillian, Bibliography of George Orwell
Fierz, Mabel
Fierz, Stefanie
Flaubert, Gustave
Forster, E. M., “Abinger Pageant,” A Passage to India
Frankford, Frank
Freud, Sigmund
Funder, Anna, Stasiland
Gide, André, Return from the USSR
Gissing, George, New Grub Street
Gow, Andrew
Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows
Graves, Robert, Good-bye to All That
Green, Julien
Greene, Graham
Harrisson, Tom
Hearsey, May, Land of Chindits and Rubies
Hemingway, Ernest, A Farewell to Arms
Heppenstall, Rayner
Hobbes, Thomas, Leviathan
Holbrook, David
Howe, Irving
Huxley, Aldous
Independent Labour Party
Johnson, Samuel
Joyce, James, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses
Kafka, Franz
Katyn Massacre
Kipling, Rudyard, “Baa Baa, Black Sheep,” “The Gardener,” “Mandalay,” Something of Myself, “Tommy,”
Koestler, Arthur, Darkness at Noon
Kopp, Georges
Lawrence, D. H., “The Captain's Doll,” Lady Chatterley's Lover, The Rainbow, “The Rocking-Horse Winner,” Women in Love
le Carré, John
Lesser, Sam
Lewis, Wyndham: The Art of Being Ruled, One-Way Song, Rotting Hill, Time and Western Man
Limouzin, Nellie
London, Jack: The Iron Heel, Love of Life, The People of the Abyss
Macrae, John, “In Flanders Fields,”
Mailer, Norman
Malraux, André, Man's Hope, The Walnut Trees of Altenburg
Marx, Karl, Communist Manifesto
Maugham, W. Somerset
McCarthy, Mary
McNair, John
Meredith, Michael
Meyers, Jeffrey
Miller, Henry, The Colossus of Maroussi
Milosz, Czeslaw
Milton, John, Paradise Lost
Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
Muggeridge, Malcolm
Orwell, Eileen O'shaughnessy
ORWELL, GEORGE (Eric Blair, 1903–1950)
LIFE
appearance
biographies of: Gordon Bowker, Bernard Crick, 219; Jeffrey Meyers, Michael Shelden, Peter Stansky and William Abrahams, D. J. Taylor
birth
boating accident
Burma
childhood
earnings
education, Eton
family background
friendships
illness, pneumonia, tuberculosis
Jura
list of Communist sympathizers
marriages: Eileen O'shaughnessy, Sonia Brownell
relationship with parents
relationships with women
travel: France, Morocco, Spain
wound
CHARACTER
attitude toward animals
austerity
concern about money
conscientiousness
courage
defense of underdog
disregard of health
guilt
honesty
idealism
kindness
masochism
self-destructiveness
sense of humor
social conscience
violent temper
work ethic
working-class persona
IDEAS
politics, anti-colonialism, anti-Communism, anti-totalitarianism, Socialism
writing
TECHNIQUES
beast-fable
humor
motifs
realism
satire
style, clear, colloquial, plain
WORK
autobiographical
BBC Talks
book reviewing
cultural criticism
cultural influence
film criticism
journalism
letters
literary influences: Camus, Conrad, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Eliot, Forster, Gissing, Grahame, Joyce, Kipling, Koestler, Lawrence, London, Maugham, Milton, Swift, Wells, Zola
literary persona,
moralist
propaganda
themes: class exploitation, comradeship, England, loss, the past, poverty, revolution betrayed, telling the truth
WORKS
Collections
The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters
The Complete Works
Nonfiction
Down and Out in Paris and London
Homage to Catalonia, criticism of, sales
Inside the Whale
The Lion and the Unicorn
The Lost Writings
The Road to Wigan Pier, expiation, poverty; satire, Socialism
The War Commentaries
Novels
Animal Farm, Preface, sources
Burmese Days, colonial critique
A Clergyman's Daughter
Coming Up for Air, George Bowling
Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Gordon Comstock
Nineteen Eighty-Four, anti-totalitarian theme, Appendix on Newspeak, and the BBC, composition of, edited by Crick, facsimile edition, new words, O’Brien, the past, predictions in, and Sonia, and Teheran Conference, as Thirties novel, Winston Smith
Essays and Diaries
“The Art of Donald McGill,”
“As I Please,”
“Boys’ Weeklies,”
“Charles Dickens,”
“Clink,”
“Confessions of a Book-Reviewer,”
“The Cost of Letters,”
“Decline of the English Murder,”
“Diary,”
“England, Your England,”
“Freedom of the Press,”
“The Frontiers of Art and Propaganda,”
“Funny, But Not Vulgar,”
“Good Bad Books,”
“A Hanging,”
“Hop-Picking,”
“How the Poor Die,”
“Imaginary Interview,”
“Inside the Whale,”
Introduction to British Pamphleteers
“James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution,”
“Literature and Totalitarianism,”
“London Letters,”
“Marrakech,”
“New Words,”
“Notes on the Spanish Militias,”
“Politics and the English Language,”
“Politics vs. Literature,”
“The Prevention of Literature,”
“Raffles and Miss Blandish,”
“Riding Down from Bangor,” “The Road to Wigan Pier Diary,”
“Rudyard Kipling,”
“Shooting an Elephant,”
“Some Thoughts on the Common Toad,”
“The Spike,”
“Such, Such Were the Joys,”
“Travel Round and Down,”
“War Diary,”
“Why I Write,”
“Writers and Leviathan,”
Poems
“A happy vicar I might have been,”
“On a Ruined Farm Near the His Master's Voice Gramophone Factory,”
Orwell, Sonia Brownell, marriage
Paget, Celia
Partisan Review
Pitter, Ruth
Poe, Edgar Allan
Popham, Anne
POUM
Powell, Anthony
Rees, Richard
Rodden, John, The Politics of Literary Reputation
Rosenberg, Harold
Runciman, Sir Steven
Salkeld, Brenda
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Shaw, George Bernard
Shelden, Michael
Silone, Ignazio, “The Fox,”
Soria, Georges, Trotskyism in the Service of Franco
Spender, Stephen
Stalin, Joseph
Stansky, Peter
Stevens, Geoffrey
Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver's Travels
Symons, Julian
Taylor, D. J.
Thackeray, William, The Newcombes
Thomas, Hugh, The Spanish Civil War
Time and Tide
Tribune
Trotsky, Leon, The Revolution Betrayed
Wain, John, Hurry on Down
Warburg, Fredric
Waugh, Evelyn
Weil, Simone
Wells, H. G., The History of Mr. Polly
West, Anthony
West, William J.
Woodruff, Philip, The Men Who Ruled India
Woolf, Leonard, Growing
Zamyatin, Yevgeniy, We
Zola, Émile
Compiled by Valerie Meyers