George Orwell

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 15
INTRODUCTION......Page 16
NOTE ON THE TEXT......Page 52
GEORGE ORWELL, Introduction to the French edition (1935)......Page 54
Unsigned notice, TLS, 12 January 1933......Page 56
C.DAY LEWIS, Adelphi, February 1933......Page 57
W.H.DAVIES, New Statesman and Nation, 18 March 1933......Page 58
Unsigned notice, Nation, 6 September 1933......Page 60
JAMES FARRELL, New Republic, 11 October 1933......Page 61
DANIEL GEORGE, Tribune, 24 January 1941......Page 62
SEAN O'FAOLAIN, Spectator, 28 June 1935......Page 65
Unsigned notice, TLS, 18 July 1935......Page 66
G.W.STONIER, Fortnightly, August 1935......Page 68
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE, World Review, June 1950......Page 69
L.P.HARTLEY, Observer, 10 March 1935......Page 73
V.S.PRITCHETT, Spectator, 22 March 1935......Page 74
PETER QUENNELL, New Statesman and Nation, 23 March 1935......Page 76
MICHAEL SAYERS, Adelphi, August 1935......Page 77
GEOFFREY STONE, Commonweal, 18 June 1937......Page 79
WILLIAM PLOMER, Spectator, 24 April 1936......Page 80
CYRIL CONNOLLY, New Statesman and Nation, 25 April 1936......Page 82
Unsigned notice, TLS, 2 May 1936......Page 83
RICHARD REES, Adelphi, June 1936......Page 84
KENNETH MACPHERSON, Life and Letters Today, Autumn 1936......Page 85
ANTHONY WEST, New Yorker, 28 January 1956......Page 86
HENRY POPKIN, Commonweal, 23 March 1956......Page 95
DOROTHY VAN GHENT, Yale Review, Spring 1956......Page 97
ISAAC ROSENFELD, Commentary, June 1956......Page 99
LOUIS SIMPSON, Hudson Review, Summer 1956......Page 103
VICTOR GOLLANCZ, Foreword to the Left Book Club edition (1937)......Page 106
WALTER GREENWOOD, Tribune, 12 March 1937......Page 114
ARTHUR CALDER-MARSHALL, Time and Tide, 20 March 1937......Page 116
H.J.LASKI, Left News, March 1937......Page 119
DOUGLAS GOLDRING, Fortnightly, April 1937......Page 123
HAMISH MILES, New Statesman and Nation, 1 May 1937......Page 125
ROBERT HATCH, Nation, 30 August 1958......Page 128
PHILIP TOYNBEE, Encounter, August 1959......Page 130
Unsigned notice, TLS, 30 April 1938......Page 134
GEOFFREY GORER, Time and Tide, 30 April 1938......Page 136
JOHN MCNAIR, New Leader (London), 6 May 1938......Page 139
PHILIP MAIRET, New English Weekly, 26 May 1938......Page 142
A.W.J., Manchester Guardian, 14 June 1938......Page 145
DOUGLAS WOODRUFF, Tablet, 9 July 1938......Page 146
STEPHEN SPENDER, World Review, June 1950......Page 149
T.R.FYVEL, New Leader (New York), 16 June 1952......Page 152
GEORGE MAYBERRY, New Republic, 23 June 1952......Page 156
HERBERT MATTHEWS, Nation, 27 December 1952......Page 158
HUGH THOMAS, New Statesman, 20 April 1962......Page 165
Unsigned notice, TLS, 17 June 1939......Page 167
MARGERY ALLINGHAM, Time and Tide, 24 June 1939......Page 169
WINIFRED HORRABIN, Tribune, 21 July 1939......Page 170
JOHN COGLEY, Commonweal, 3 February 1950......Page 171
IRVING HOWE, Nation, 4 February 1950......Page 173
EDMUND FULLER, Saturday Review of Literature, 18 February 1950......Page 176
JAMES STERN, New Republic, 20 February 1950......Page 179
CHARLES ROLO, Atlantic Monthly, March 1950......Page 182
ISAAC ROSENFELD, Partisan Review, May 1950......Page 184
ARTHUR CALDER-MARSHALL, Time and Tide, 9 March 1940......Page 190
PHILIP MAIRET, New English Weekly, 14 March 1940......Page 192
Unsigned notice, TLS, 20 April 1940......Page 195
MAX PLOWMAN, Adelphi, April 1940......Page 197
ROBERT HERRING, Life and Letters Today, June 1940......Page 199
Q.D.LEAVIS, Scrutiny, September 1940......Page 202
DWIGHT MACDONALD, Partisan Review, March 1942......Page 206
GRAHAM GREENE, Evening Standard, 10 August 1945......Page 210
KINGSLEY MARTIN, New Statesman and Nation, 8 September 1945......Page 212
CYRIL CONNOLLY, Horizon, September 1945......Page 214
ISAAC ROSENFELD, Nation, 7 September 1946......Page 216
EDMUND WILSON, New Yorker, 7 September 1946......Page 219
NORTHROP FRYE, Canadian Forum, December 1946......Page 221
STUART HAMPSHIRE, Spectator, 8 March 1946......Page 224
EVELYN WAUGH, Tablet, 6 April 1946......Page 226
HARRY LEVIN, New Republic, 6 May 1946......Page 230
ERIC BENTLEY, Saturday Review of Literature, 11 May 1946......Page 234
WYLIE SYPHER, Nation, 25 May 1946......Page 236
EDMUND WILSON, New Yorker, 25 May 1946......Page 239
JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY, Adelphi, July 1946......Page 242
NEWTON ARVIN, Partisan Review, September 1946......Page 247
GEORGE WOODCOCK, 'George Orwell, 19th century Liberal,' Politics, December 1946......Page 250
FREDRIC WARBURG, Publisher's Report, 1948......Page 262
JULIAN SYMONS, TLS, 10 June 1949......Page 266
HAROLD NICOLSON, Observer, 12 June 1949......Page 272
DIANA TRILLING, Nation, 25 June 1949......Page 274
DANIEL BELL, New Leader (New York), 25 June 1949......Page 277
PHILIP RAHV, Partisan Review, July 1949......Page 282
SAMUEL SILLEN, Masses and Mainstream, August 1949......Page 289
GOLO MANN, Frankfurter Rundschau, 5 November 1949......Page 292
I.ANISIMOV, Pravda, 12 May 1950......Page 297
HERBERT READ, World Review, June 1950......Page 298
CZESLAW MILOSZ, The Captive Mind (1953)......Page 301
JAMES WALSH, Marxist Quarterly, January 1956......Page 302
V.S.PRITCHETT, New Statesman and Nation, 28 January 1950......Page 309
ARTHUR KOESTLER, Observer, 29 January 1950......Page 311
BERTRAND RUSSELL, World Review, June 1950......Page 314
E.M.FORSTER, Listener, 2 November 1950......Page 317
T.R.FYVEL, Tribune, 3 November 1950......Page 320
CHRISTOPHER SYKES, New Republic, 4 December 1950......Page 323
EDMUND WILSON, New Yorker, 13 January 1951......Page 324
C.V.WEDGWOOD, Time and Tide, 10 February 1951......Page 326
STEPHEN SPENDER, New Republic, 16 March 1953......Page 328
Unsigned notice, TLS, 4 December 1953......Page 331
ANGUS WILSON, Observer, 24 January 1954......Page 333
HENRY POPKIN, Kenyon Review, Winter 1954......Page 335
JOHN WAIN, Twentieth Century, January 1954......Page 341
GEORGE ELLIOTT, Hudson Review, Spring 1957......Page 349
ANTHONY POWELL, Daily Telegraph, 3 October 1968......Page 356
CONOR CRUISE O'BRIEN, Listener, 12 December 1968......Page 359
IRVING HOWE, Harper's, January 1969......Page 364
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE, Esquire, March 1969......Page 374
GEORGE STEINER, New Yorker, March 1969......Page 378
JEFFREY MEYERS, Philological Quarterly, October 1969......Page 388
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 397
INDEX......Page 398