NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 20, 2012
"Editor Davison (English/De Montfort Univ.) supplies necessary contextual information and footnotes generously, but stays in the shadows and allows us to truly enjoy Orwell's impressive chronicles."
A co-editor of George Orwell's
Complete Works offers a lushly annotated edition of Orwell's diaries from 1931 to 1949.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2002
"Admirers of Hitchens should find no fault with this appreciation, which is of an interesting piece with pal Martin Amis's Koba the Dread (p. 627). Neither should admirers of Orwell."
Vanity Fair columnist Hitchens (
Letters to a Young Contrarian, 2001, etc.), late of the English New Left, provides reassurance for those who've been staying up nights wondering whether George Orwell has any relevance in the post–Cold War world.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2008
"More often appreciative and ruminative than critical--but that's OK."
The second of two volumes of the British author's essays, compiled by journalist George Packer.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2008
"A generous display of the great English journalist's distinctive honesty, clarity and reverence for the pertinent fact and the perfect phrase."
The first of two volumes of the British author's essays, compiled by journalist George Packer.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 1, 2005
"No matter how many incursions are made into his life, the compelling fascination of this politically and morally crucial author always comes through. "
An outstanding, if somewhat superfluous, account of "one of the great misfits of his generation."
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NONFICTION
Released: May 15, 1952
"Perhaps not a book to create sensation in a day when much of what happened at Barcelona has been realized, but one enlightening in terms of showing the war way toward mutual understanding and fair play."
A history, published in Britain shortly after the author wrote it in 1937, of the few months surrounding the Barcelona Telephone Exchange riots and what the writer determines as the Communist betrayal of all of Spain's anti-fascist forces.
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 26, 1946
"MPSLUGMISTER Orwell's animals exist in their own right, with a narrative as individual as it is apt in political parody."
A modern day fable, with modern implications in a deceiving simplicity, by the author of Dickens.
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FICTION
Released: June 13, 1949
"Certain to create interest, comment, and consideration."
The Book-of-the-Month Club dual selection, with John Gunther's
Behind the Curtain (1949), for July, this projects life under perfected state controls.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 25, 1934
"And the story itself is not particularly worth telling."
FICTION
Released: Jan. 10, 1950
A very different dish of tea from his earlier Animal Farm and recent Nineteen Eighty Four both of which instigated aroused controversy, is this book which was published in England before the war.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 27, 1950
"For the selective reader as well as his established followers."
A collection of eighteen essays by the author of Nineteen Eighty Four and Animal Farm, etc. these represent the last of his finished work.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 26, 1953
"People, places, events and attitudes- are all caught and observed with honesty and a distillation of meaning that gives these 11 inclusions their appeal."
Collected from 1939 on, these are essays and autobiographical pieces, which while contemplative in tone, are not contended and should be welcomed by the audience Orwell has claimed.
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FICTION
Released: April 15, 1946
"A personal, serious, but never dull analysis that has a definite worth in its challenges, in its integrity."
Ten essays, consistently controversial, that range widely between a long one, in six parts, on Dickens, shorter ones on boys' weeklies', H.G. Wells, comic postcards, Kipling, Yeats, Dall, Koostler, detective stories, Wodehouse.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 3, 2003
"Like many volumes on the groaning shelf of Orwelliana, this reads more like a conversation with fellow monomaniacs than something for the general public. (16 pp. b&w illustrations, not seen)"
Carping portrait of the English patron saint of left-wing anti-communism, by a biographer who displayed a lot more enthusiasm for
Thackeray (2001).
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FICTION
Released: June 15, 1956
Richard H. Rovere introduces this generous collection of Orwellania — sections and chapters from his books and pieces from his newspaper writings, from his Burmese world to that of World War II, and after.
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