Orwell (45 page)

“Review of Christopher Hitchens'
Why Orwell Matters,” Studies in the Novel
, 86 (Summer 2004), 277–278.

“Orwell's
Burmese Days:
A Hindi and Burmese Glossary,”
Notes on Contemporary Literature
, 35 (May 2005), 2–3.

INDEX

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Abrahams, William

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, Adrian

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

Watson, Susan

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

J
EFFREY
M
EYERS has written extensively on literature, film and art. He is the author of forty-eight books, including
The Genius and the Goddess: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe
and biographies of Katherine Mansfield, Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Meyers is one of twelve Americans who are Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2005 he received an Award in Literature “to honor exceptional achievement” from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Berkeley, California.

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