George Orwell: The Critical Heritage

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• Title Page iii
• General Editor's Preface vii
• Contents ix
• Acknowledgments xiii
• Introduction 1
• Down and Out in Paris and London 39
• 1 - George Orwell, Introduction to La Vache Enragée 39
• 2 - Unsigned Notice, Times Literary Supplement 41
• 3 - C. Day Lewis, Adelphi 42
• 4 - W. H. Davies, New Statesman and Nation 43
• 6 - James Farrell, New Republic 46
• 7 - Daniel George, Tribune 47
• Burmese Days 50
• 8 - Sean O'faolain, Spectator 50
• 9 - Unsigned Notice, Times Literary Supplement 51
• 10 - G. W. Stonier, Fortnightly 53

• Title Page iii
• General Editor's Preface vii
• Contents ix
• Acknowledgments xiii
• Introduction 1
• Down and Out in Paris and London 39
• 1 - George Orwell, Introduction to La Vache Enragée 39
• 2 - Unsigned Notice, Times Literary Supplement 41
• 3 - C. Day Lewis, Adelphi 42
• 4 - W. H. Davies, New Statesman and Nation 43
• 6 - James Farrell, New Republic 46
• 7 - Daniel George, Tribune 47
• Burmese Days 50
• 8 - Sean O'faolain, Spectator 50
• 9 - Unsigned Notice, Times Literary Supplement 51
• 10 - G. W. Stonier, Fortnightly 53
• 11 - Malcolm Muggeridge, World Review 54
• A Clergyman's Daughter 58
• 12 - L. P. Hartley, Observer 58
• 13 - V. S. Pritchett, Spectator 59
• 14 - Peter Quennell, New Statesman and Nation 61
• 15 - Michael Sayers, Adelphi 62
• 16 - Geoffrey Stone, Commonweal 64
• Keep the Aspidistra Flying 65
• 17 - William Plomer, Spectator 65
• 18 - Cyril Connolly, New Statesman and Nation 67
• 19 - Unsigned Notice, Times Literary Supplement 68
• 20 - R. R. (richard Rees), Adelphi 69
• 21 - Kenneth Macpherson, Life and Letters Today 70
• 22 - Anthony West, New Yorker 71
• 23 - Henry Popkin, Commonweal 80
• 24 - Dorothy Van Ghent, Yale Review 82
• 25 - Isaac Rosenfeld, Commentary 84
• 26 - Louis Simpson, Hudson Review 88
• The Road to Wigan Pier 91
• 27 - Victor Gollancz, Foreword 91
• 28 - Walter Greenwood, Tribune 99
• 29 - Arthur Calder-Marshall, Time and Tide 101
• 30 - H. J. Laski, Left News 104
• 31 - Douglas Goldring, Fortnightly 108
• 32 - Hamish Miles, New Statesman and Nation 110
• 33 - Robert Hatch, Nation 113
• 34 - Philip Toynbee, Encounter 115
• Homage to Catalonia 119
• 35 - Unsigned Notice, Times Literary Supplement 119
• 36 - Geoffrey Gorer, Time and Tide 121
• 37 - John Mcnair, New Leader (london) 124
• 38 - P. M. (philip Mairet), New English Weekly 127
• 39 - A. W. J., Manchester Guardian 130
• 40 - D. W. (douglas Woodruff), Tablet 131
• 41 - Stephen Spender, World Review 134
• 42 - T. R. Fyvel, New Leader (new York) 137
• 43 - George Mayberry, New Republic 141
• 44 - Herbert Matthews, Nation 143
• 45 - Hugh Thomas, New Statesman 150
• Coming Up for Air 152
• 46 - Unsigned Notice, Times Literary Supplement 152
• 47 - Margery Allingham, Time and Tide 154
• 48 - Winifred Horrabin, Tribune 155
• 49 - John Cogley, Commonweal 156
• 50 - Irving Howe, Nation 158
• 51 - Edmund Fuller, Saturday Review of Literature 161
• 52 - James Stern, New Republic 164
• 53 - Charles Rolo, Atlantic Monthly 167
• 54 - Isaac Rosenfeld, Partisan Review 169
• Inside the Whale 175
• 55 - Arthur Calder-Marshall, Time and Tide 175
• 56 - P. M. (philip Mairet), New English Weekly 177
• 57 - Unsigned Notice, Times Literary Supplement 180
• 58 - Max Plowman, Adelphi 182
• 59 - R. H. (robert Herring), Life and Letters Today 184
• 60 - Q. D. Leavis, Scrutiny 187
• The Lion and the Unicorn 191
• 61 - Dwight Macdonald, Partisan Review 191
• Animal Farm 195
• 62 - Graham Greene, Evening Standard 195
• 63 - Kingsley Martin, New Statesman and Nation 197
• 64 - C. C. (cyril Connolly), Horizon 199
• 65 - Isaac Rosenfeld, Nation 201
• 66 - Edmund Wilson, New Yorker 204
• 67 - Northrop Frye, Canadian Forum 206
• Critical Essays (us Title: Dickens, Dali and Others) 209
• 68 - Stuart Hampshire, Spectator 209
• 69 - Evelyn Waugh, Tablet 211
• 70 - Harry Levin, New Republic 215
• 71 - Eric Bentley, Saturday Review of Literature 219
• 72 - Wylie Sypher, Nation 221
• 73 - Edmund Wilson, New Yorker 224
• 74 - John Middleton Murry, Adelphi 227
• 75 - Newton Arvin, Partisan Review 232
• George Woodcock on George Orwell 235
• 76 - George Woodcock, 'George Orwell, 19th Century Liberal' 235
• 1984 247
• 77 - Fredric Warburg, Publisher's Report 247
• 78 - Julian Symons, Times Literary Supplement 251
• 79 - Harold Nicolson, Observer 257
• 80 - Diana Trilling, Nation 259
• 81 - Daniel Bell, New Leader (new York) 262
• 82 - Philip Rahv, Partisan Review 267
• 83 - Samuel Sillen, Masses and Mainstream 274
• 84 - Golo Mann, Frankfurter Rundschau 277
• 85 - I. Anisimov, Pravda 282
• 86 - Herbert Read, World Review 283
• 87 - Czeslaw Milosz, the Captive Mind 286
• 88 - James Walsh, Marxist Quarterly 287
• Obituaries 294
• 89 - V. S. Pritchett, New Statesman and Nation 294
• 90 - Arthur Koestler, Observer 296
• 91 - Bertrand Russell, World Review 299
• Shooting an Elephant 302
• 92 - E. M. Forster, Listener 302
• 93 - T. R. Fyvel, Tribune 305
• 94 - Christopher Sykes, New Republic 308
• 95 - Edmund Wilson, New Yorker 309
• 96 - C. V. Wedgwood, Time and Tide 311
• England Your England (us Title: Such, Such Were the Joys) 313
• 97 - Stephen Spender, New Republic 313
• 98 - Unsigned Notice, Times Literary Supplement 316
• 99 - Angus Wilson, Observer 318
• 100 - Henry Popkin, Kenyon Review 320
• 101 - John Wain, Twentieth Century 326
• 102 - George Elliott, Hudson Review 334
• Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters 341
• 103 - Anthony Powell, Daily Telegraph 341
• 104 - Conor Cruise O'brien, Listener 344
• 105 - Irving Howe, Harper's 349
• 106 - Malcolm Muggeridge, Esquire 359
• 107 - George Steiner, New Yorker 363
• 108 - Jeffrey Meyers, Philological Quarterly 373
• Select Bibliography 382
• Index 383