George Orwell
Basics
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
George Orwell 100th Birthday Site.
Political Writings of George Orwell.
In the Library: Articles
Menand, Louis. "Honest, decent, wrong: the invention of George Orwell," New Yorker (1/27/03):84-91. Useful introduction to strengths, virtues & idiosyncracies, & to the often startling political uses to which his work has been put by others.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Abella, Rosalie S. & Melvin L. Rothman (eds.) Justice Beyond Orwell (Montreal: Y. Blais, 1985).
Craig, Sandy. Down & Out: Orwell's Paris & London Revisited (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984).
Gleason, Abbott; Jack Goldsmith & Martha C. Nussbaum (eds.) On Nineteen Eighty-Four: Orwell & Our Future (Princeton NJ: Princeton, 2005).
Hitchens, Christopher. Why Orwell Matters (NY: Basic Books, 2002).
Howe, Irving (ed.) 1984 Revisited: Totalitarianism in Our Century (NY: Harper & Row, 1983).
Meyers, Jeffrey. Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation (NY: W.W. Norton, 2000).
Norris, Christopher (ed.) Inside the Myth. Orwell: Views from the Left (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1984).
Orwell, George. Down & Out in Paris & London [1933] (London: Secker & Warburg, 1960).
__________. A Clergyman's Daughter [1935] (London: Secker & Warburg, 1960).
__________. Keep the Aspidistra Flying [1936] (London: Secker & Warburg, 1954).
__________. The Road to Wigan Pier [1937] (London: Secker & Warburg, 1986).
__________. Homage to Catalonia [1938] (London: Secker & Warburg, 1986).
__________. All Propaganda is Lies, 1941-1942 (ed. Peter Davison; London: Secker & Warburg, 1998).
__________. Coming Up for Air (NMY: Harcourt Brace, 1950).
__________. Collected Essays (London: Secker & Warburg, 1961).
__________. Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters (4 vols.; NY, 1969).
__________. Orwell's England: The Road to Wigan Pier in the Context of Essays, Review, Letters & Poems... (ed. Peter Davison; NY: Penguin, 2001).
Rodden, John. George Orwell: The Politics of Literary Reputation [1989] (New Brunswick NJ: Transaction, 2002).
__________. Scenes from an Afterlife: The Legacy of George Orwell (Wilmington DE: ISI, 2003).
__________. Every Intellectual's Big Brother: George Orwell's Literary Siblings (Austin: U. of Texas, 2006).
Saunders, Frances Stonor. The Cultural Cold War: The CIA & the World of Arts & Letters (NY: New Press, 2000).
In the Library: Fiction
Orwell, George. Burmese Days: A Novel [1934] (ed. Peter Davison; London: Secker & Warburg, 1986).
__________. Animal Farm [1946] (NY: Knopf, 1993).
__________. 1984: A Novel [1949] (NY: Knopf, 1992).