Includes bibliographical references (p. 283) and index.

On George Orwell / John Rodden -- How Orwell became "a famous author" / John Rodden -- Biography of George Orwell / John P. Rossi -- Homage to my "intellectual big brother" / John Rodden -- The historical background of Orwell's work / James Seaton -- Comparison and contrast : Orwell, Hemingway, and the Spanish Civil War / William E. Cain -- Orwell and reader-response theory / William E. Cain -- George Orwell's critical reception / Loraine Saunders -- Orwell's documentaries of the 1930s / Loraine Saunders -- Orwell the essayist and journalist / James Seaton -- Of communism, censorship, satire, and "little comrades" : Animal farm, Beijing, and the problem of genre / John Rodden -- Nightmares of history : Animal farm and Nineteen eighty-four / Eugene Goodheart -- Literary and scientific perspectives on Nineteen Eighty-Four / Peter Davison -- Ideology versus psychology in Nineteen Eighty-Four : dystopia meets modernism / Gorman Beauchamp -- George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four in the twenty-first century / Peter Stansky -- Veiled autobiography : George Orwell, Winston Smith, and Nineteen eighty-four / Henk Vynckier -- The intellectual as critic and conscience : George Orwell and Albert Camus / John Rodden -- George Orwell and Jacintha Buddicom : a memoir / Dione Venables.