Editions
The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell, 4 vols, ed. Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus (London: Secker & Warburg, 1968; Harmondsworth: Penguin edn, 1970).
Orwell: The War Broadcasts, ed. W. J. West (London: Duckworth, 1985).
Orwell: The War Commentaries, ed. W. J. West (London: Duckworth, 1985).
The Complete Works of George Orwell, 20 vols, ed. Peter Davison (London: Secker & Warburg, 1998).
Biography
Coppard, Audrey, and Bernard Crick (eds), Orwell Remembered (London: BBC, 1984).
Crick, Bernard, George Orwell: A Life (London: Secker & Warburg, 1980).
Davison, Peter, George Orwell: A Literary Life (London: Macmillan, 1996).
Fyvel, T. R., George Orwell: A Personal Memoir (London: Macmillan, 1982).
Gross, Miriam (ed.), The World of George Orwell (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971).
Taylor, D. J., Orwell: The Life (London: Chatto & Windus, 2003).
Bibliography
Fenwick, Gillian, George Orwell: A Bibliography (Winchester: St Paul’s Bibliographies, 1998).
Critical Studies
Colls, Robert, George Orwell, English Rebel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
Dwan, David, Liberty, Equality, and Humbug: Orwell’s Political Ideals (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).
Hitchens, Christopher, Orwell’s Victory (London: Allen Lane, 2002).
Marks, Peter, George Orwell the Essayist: Literature, Politics and the Periodical Culture (London: Continuum, 2011).
Meyers, Jeffrey (ed.), George Orwell: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge, 1975).
Newsinger, John, Orwell’s Politics (London: Macmillan, 1999).
Norris, Christopher (ed.), Inside the Myth: Orwell, Views from the Left (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1984).
Rai, Alok, Orwell and the Politics of Despair: A Critical Study of the Writings of George Orwell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
Rodden, John, The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of ‘St George’ Orwell (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).
Rodden, John (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Williams, Raymond, Orwell (London: Fontana, 1971).
Woloch, Alex, Or Orwell: Writing and Democratic Socialism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016).
Woodcock, George, The Crystal Spirit: A Study of George Orwell (London: Cape, 1967).
Zwerdling, Alex, Orwell and the Left (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974).
Historical and Contextual Studies
Branson, Noreen, History of the Communist Party of Great Britain 1927–1951, 2 vols (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1985 and 1997).
Collini, Stefan, Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).
Good, Graham, The Observing Self: Rediscovering the Essay (London: Routledge, 1988).
Hewison, Robert, Under Siege: Literary Life in London 1939–1945 (rev. edn, London: Methuen, 1988).
Hill, Douglas (ed.), Tribune 40: The First Forty Years of a Socialist Newspaper (London: Quartet Books, 1977).
Rorty, Richard, Irony, Contingency, and Solidarity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
Shelden, Michael, Friends of Promise: Cyril Connolly and the World of Horizon (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1989).
Young, John Wesley, Totalitarian Language: Orwell’s Newspeak and its Nazi and Communist Antecedents (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 1991).
Further Reading in Oxford World’s Classics
Orwell, George, Animal Farm, ed. David Dwan.
Orwell, George, Burmese Days, ed. Rosinka Chaudhuri.
Orwell, George, A Clergyman’s Daughter, ed. Nathan Waddell.
Orwell, George, Coming Up for Air, ed. Marina MacKay.
Orwell, George, Down and Out in Paris and London, ed. John Brannigan.
Orwell, George, Homage to Catalonia, ed. Lisa Mullen.
Orwell, George, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, ed. Benjamin Kohlmann.
Orwell, George, Nineteen Eighty-Four, ed. John Bowen.
Orwell, George, The Road to Wigan Pier, ed. Selina Todd.