Table Of Contents:
Preface v
PART ONE Text 1(206)

Nineteen Eighty-Four 3(204)

George Orwell
PART TWO Sources 207(34)

From Brave New World 209(15)

Aldous Huxley

From We 224(8)

Eugene Zamiatin

``Year Nine'' 232(5)

Cyril Connolly

From The Revolution Betrayed 237(4)

Leon Trotsky
PART THREE Orwell's Ideas 241(34)

``Why I Write'' 243(5)

George Orwell

``Politics and the English Language'' 248(11)

George Orwell

``Freedom and Happiness'' 259(3)

George Orwell

``The Prevention of Literature'' 262(13)

George Orwell
PART FOUR Orwell on Nineteen Eighty-Four: Letters and Essays 275(14)
PART FIVE From the Early Reviews 289(12)

``Review of 1984'' 291(2)

V. S. Pritchett

``George Orwell's Utopia'' 293(1)

Julian Symons

``An Indignant and Prophetic Novel'' 294(1)

Mark Schorer

``Orwell on the Future'' 295(2)

Lionel Trilling

``Maggot-of-the-Month'' 297(4)

Samuel Sillen
PART SIX Criticism 301(68)

``The Fiction of Anti-Utopia'' 303(7)

Irving Howe

``The Unfuture of Utopia'' 310(6)

Philip Rahv

``Decency and Death'' 316(4)

Isaac Rosenfeld

``1984: History as Nightmare'' 320(12)

Irving Howe

``1984---The Mysticism of Cruelty'' 332(11)

Isaac Deutscher

``George Orwell and the Politics of Truth'' 343(14)

Lionel Trilling

``George Orwell'' 357(12)

John Wain
PART SEVEN Personal Responses 369(24)

``George Orwell'' 371(2)

Bertrand Russell

``Letter to George Orwell'' 373(1)

Aldous Huxley

``A Footnote About 1984'' 374(1)

Aldous Huxley

``A Rebel's Progress: To George Orwell's Death'' 375(1)

Arthur Koestler

``George Orwell'' 376(1)

E. M. Forster

``A Writer's Life'' 377(16)

T. R. Fyvel
PART EIGHT The Politics of Totalitarianism 393(34)

``Our Peculiar Hell'' 395(10)

Richard Lowenthal

``Ideology and Terror: A Novel Form of Government'' 405(22)

Hannah Arendt
PART NINE A Recent View of Nineteen Eighty-Four 427(14)

``Nineteen Eighty-Four Revisited'' 429(12)

Michael Harrington
Suggestions for Writing 441(5)
Suggestions for Further Reading 446