Decline and Fall (Waugh) 79
Deeping, Warwick 40–41, 69
Dell, Ethel M. 40, 69
Dickens, Charles 66, 94–5, 125, 129, 168, 181
Donne, John 215
Donoghue, Denis 214, 248
Donovan, Paddy 231
Down and Out in Paris and London 30, 82, 118–23, 125–32, 151, 158, 233–4, 243, 244
Downes, John J. 242
Dracula 69
Dronfield, Jeremy 248
Dunn, Bill 224
Duras, Marguerite 43–4
Eagleton, Terry 181
Eckermann, Johann 242
Eden, Anthony 196, 205
Edwards, Ruth Dudley 246
Eliot, T. S. 82, 83, 126, 158, 222
Elizabeth II, queen of England 35
Ellmann, Richard 242
Empson, Hetta (Hester Crouse) 198, 210, 213, 248
Empson, William 42, 198, 207, 209–15, 221, 235, 245, 248
Enemies of Promise 66, 76, 243, 244
‘England your England’ 135
Eric, or Little by Little 77
Etchart, Julio 92
Eunson, Derek 134, 136, 143
Farrar, Dean Frederic 77
Fierz, Francis 128, 157
Fierz, Mabel 17, 127–9, 141–2, 146, 156–7, 157–8
Fitzgerald, F. Scott 121
Fletcher, Robin 223
Foot, Paul 49–50, 243
Ford, Hugh D. 246
Forge, The 243
Foul and the Fragrant, The 242
Frank, Anne 172
Freeman, R. Austin 69
Freud, Sigmund 25–6
Frogs, The 74
Furlong, Gillian 250
Fyvel, Tosco 82
Gable, Clark 223
Gallean, Luigi 107
Gandhi, Mahatma 90, 208
Gem, The 159
George Orwell: A Life 243
George Orwell: English Rebel 247
Gershwin, George 121
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary 78
Gilbert, Avery 20–21, 242
Girl from the Fiction Department, The 43
Goebbels, Joseph 212
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 242
Gollancz, Victor 42, 82, 98, 128, 138, 145, 151, 154, 164, 169, 177–80, 195, 222, 246
‘Good Bad Books’ 244
Gorer, Geoffrey 166
Gow, Andrew 73–5, 110–11
Grass, Günter 213
Gray, Simon 231
Green, Henry 78
Greene, Grahame 60
Gross, Miriam 246
Grossman, Vasily 213–14
Gulliver’s Travels 14, 56–7, 215, 217–19
Haffenden, John 245, 248
Haggard, H. Rider 69
Hall, Radclyffe 121
Hamilton, Bill 35, 250
‘Hanging, A’ 79, 100–101, 106
Hearnshaw, L. S. 247
Hemingway, Ernest 12, 121
Heppenstall, Rayner 99, 158–9, 177
History of Mr Polly, The 158, 189–90
Hitchens, Christopher 109, 242, 245
Hoggart, Richard 17, 181–2
Hollis, Christopher 186
Homage to Catalonia 32–3, 170, 180–81, 184–5, 222, 235–6
Hoover, J. Edgar 223
‘Hop Picking’ 127
Hopkins, Gerard Manley 211
Horizon magazine 43–4, 63, 69, 79, 162, 168, 203, 206, 213, 243, 248
House, Humphry 168, 247
Housman, A. E. 111, 158, 229
‘How the Poor Die’ 124, 230
Howard, Brian 83
Hughes, Kathryn 244
Huxley, Aldous 29, 118
Huysmans, Joris Karl 24–5
Indar, Josh 233, 249
‘Inside the Whale’ 122, 242
Iron Heel, The 245
Jackson, Lydia (‘Elizaveta Fen’) 166–7, 185, 247
Jacob, Alaric 62
Jaques, Eleanor 112–15, 118, 139, 144
James, M. R. 74, 78
Johnson, Paul 74
Johnson, Dr Samuel 215
Joyce, James 17, 26–7, 121, 122, 141
Joyce, Nora 27, 128, 147
Joynson-Hicks, William 121
Katha: In the Footsteps of Orwell in Burma 92
Keeble, Richard Lance 244, 248
Keep the Aspidistra Flying 21, 30–32, 39–42, 53, 69, 80, 113, 116, 127, 132, 133, 134, 146–51, 235
Kermode, Frank 46, 243
Kind of Compulsion, A 245–6
King Lear 223
King Solomon’s Mines 69
Kipling, Rudyard 89, 92, 93, 98, 103, 120, 158, 16, 211, 212
Kneale, Nigel 33–4
Koestler, Arthur 85, 245
Kopp, Georges 173, 175–7, 184, 197
Kroonenberg, Salomon 22
Lacan, Jacques 43
Lady Chatterley’s Lover 17, 121, 182
Lane, Allen 36
Larkin, Philip 72
Laski, Harold 32, 179–80
Lawrence, D. H. 9, 17, 55, 121, 142, 182, 214
Lawrence, T. E. 137
Lawton, Tommy 206
Le Faye, Deirdre 13
Le Pétomane 17
Lenin, Vladimir 216
Lewis, Jeremy 243
Limouzin, Charlie 62
Limouzin, Ida see Blair, Ida
Limouzin, Nellie 123, 146, 166, 170, 209–10
Lion and the Unicorn, The 80, 136, 202, 208–9, 244
Little Black Sambo 55
London, Jack 69, 119–20, 125, 131, 155, 245
Longhurst, Henry 63
Lore and Language of Schoolchildren, The 247
McGill, Donald 77, 114, 155–6, 216
Mackenzie, Compton 68, 244
MacNeice, Louis 210
Magnet, The 159
Mailer, Norman 12
Major, John 135–6, 203
Malinowski, Bronislaw 117–18, 123, 131
Mansfield Park 13
Martin, Kingsley 181
Matthews, Stanley 206
Maugham, Somerset 69, 92, 126
‘Meaning of a Poem, The’ 211
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice 43, 45
Meyers, Jeffrey 49, 246
Miller, Henry 18–19, 121, 122, 168, 169
Mills, C. Wright 246
Milton, Harry 175
Milton, John 23–4
Monat, Der 222–3
Moore, Leonard 145
More Memoirs of an Aesthete 188
Morris, William 181–2
Murry, John Middleton 127
‘My Country Right or Left’ 169, 202
Myers, L. H. 81, 186, 247–8
New English Weekly 157
Nightingale, Florence 61
Nin, Andreu 171, 176
Nineteen Eighty-Four (‘The Last Man in Europe’) 12, 15, 29, 33–6, 42, 43–5, 56, 59–60, 65, 84, 87, 89, 92, 96, 108, 113, 129, 144, 198, 201, 208, 212, 225–7, 229, 236, 242, 245
No Orchids for Miss Blandish 69
Nordau, Max 119
Obermeyer, Charles 157
Obermeyer, Rosalind Henschel 157, 159–60
O’Brien, Conor Cruise 101, 245
Observer, The 79–81, 200, 204–5, 208, 214
Of Human Bondage 126
Ogden, C. K. 209
Opie, Iona 247
Opie, Peter 247
Orwell, Eileen see Blair, Eileen
Orwell, Sonia 8, 36, 43–7, 54, 81, 115, 203, 223, 225–6
Orwell’s Cough 50, 249
Orwell Mystique, The 242
Orwell’s Victory 242
O’Shaughnessy, Eileen see Orwell, Eileen
O’Shaughnessy, Gwen 160–61, 171, 185, 197, 199–200
O’Shaughnessy, Lawrence 160–61, 184–6, 197
Paddy (Irish tramp) 57, 129, 232
Paradise Lost 23–4
Parker, Revd Ernest 135, 143�
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Partisan Review 206
Passage to India, A 92
Patai, Daphne 242
Paterson, Mike 135, 246
Pearce, Robert 244
People of the Abyss 69, 119–20, 125
Picasso, Pablo 43
Picture Post, The 196
Pitter, Ruth 116–17
Plomer, William 150
Plowman, Max 127, 186
Poe, Edgar Allan 78
Polemic 206
‘Politics and the English Language’ 180, 213–14, 244
‘Politics vs. Literature’ 16, 56
Pollitt, Harry 176, 178–9
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A 26–7, 128
Pound, Ezra 158
‘Poverty Plain and Coloured’ 127
Powell, Anthony 21, 43, 85, 132
Pritchett, V. S. 118, 145, 246
‘Propaganda and Demotic Speech’ 213
Proust, Marcel 28, 185
Pujol, Joseph 17
Quennell, Peter 45
Qu’ran, the 35–6
‘Raffles and Miss Blandish’ 79, 244
Rees, Richard 31–2, 39, 42, 57, 79–81, 100, 127, 129, 133, 146, 148, 150, 151, 224, 226, 248
Reith, Lord John 34
Remembrance of Things Past 28
Rennie, Neil 242
Rhonda, Lady Margaret 195
Richards, I. A. 209
Road to Wigan Pier, The 13, 15, 29, 32, 82, 93–4, 97, 99, 103, 151–6, 177–8, 228, 240–41, 242, 245, 247
Robin Hood 59, 243
Robinson, H. R. 245
Rock Pool, The 246
Rodden, John 50, 112, 245
Rodgers, W. R. 210
Root and the Flower, The 186
Ross, J. J. 50, 100, 200, 236, 245, 248
Runciman, Steven 78
Ryan, Mordecai 246
Sacco, Nicola 107
Salkeld, Brenda 59, 111, 112–14, 135, 139, 142, 143–4, 168, 210, 246
Sanders of the River 104
Saunders, Frances Stonor 223, 249
Sayers, Michael 158–9
Schiller, Friedrich 15, 242
Sense and Sensibility 13
Seven Types of Ambiguity 209, 211
Shelden, Michael 49
Shiel, M. P. 159
‘Shooting an Elephant’ 101, 167
Silvestri, Michael 245
Simmons, Mr (magistrate) 96, 243
Singing Bone, The 69
Sinister Street 68
Smillie, Bob 176–7
Smillie, Robert 176
‘Smoking Room Story’ 231
Sorrell and Son 42, 69, 75
Spender, Natasha 248
Spender, Stephen 43, 58–9, 79, 132, 138, 182, 203, 210, 247, 248
‘Spike, The’ 79, 127, 231–2
‘Spilling the Spanish Beans’ 180, 247
Spurling, Hilary 43, 45, 243
Stalin, Joseph 179–80, 195, 221–2
Stansky, Peter 37, 49, 65–6, 70, 74–6, 82, 138, 161, 245, 247
Stein, Gertrude 121
Stoker, Bram 69
Stokes, Adrian 11, 16, 242
Strachey, John 179
Stradling, Robert 182
Structure of Complex Words, The 211, 212
‘Such, Such Were the Joys’ 20–22, 60, 63–8, 243, 244
Swift, Jonathan 11, 13–14, 16, 18, 26, 56, 215, 217–18, 228–9
Taylor, D. J. 49–50, 52, 70, 78, 113, 148, 156, 164, 167, 195, 244, 247, 248
Thackeray, William Makepeace 67
Thomas, Dylan 158, 210
Tillotson, Geoffrey 168, 247
Tillotson, Kathleen 168, 247
Time and Tide 195
‘To an Athlete Dying Young’ 229
Treitschke, Heinrich von 25
Tribune 185, 205–6, 224, 244
Trilling, Lionel 226
Tropic of Capricorn, The 18
Trotsky, Leon 171, 221, 248
Turing, Alan 207
Ulysses 17, 121, 141
Unexamined Orwell, The 243, 245
Vanzetti, Bartolomeo 107
Waiting for Godot 130
Wallace, Edgar 40, 69, 104
Walton, Izaak 191
Warburg, Frederic 33, 66, 82, 181, 184, 202, 222, 224
Warburg, Pamela 99
Waste Land, The 83
Watson, Peter 79, 81, 181, 204, 248
Waugh, Evelyn 60, 79, 83, 97
Way of All Flesh, The 87
Well of Loneliness, The 121, 126
Wells, H. G. 69, 158
Westrope, Frank 40–41, 146
Westrope, Myfanwy 40–41, 146, 156
Why Hell Stinks of Sulfur 22
‘Why I Write’ 51, 242, 243, 248
Why Orwell Matters 245
Wilde, Oscar 21
Wildermeersch, Marc 247
Wilkes, Cicely Vaughan (‘Flip’) 61–8, 70, 72
Wilkes, Lewis Chitty Vaughan (‘Sambo’) 61–8, 72, 95–96, 131
Williams, Raymond 214, 245, 248
Wilson, Angus 43
Wilson, Harold 46
Wintringham, Tom 196
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 211
Woodcock, George 109, 245
World of George Orwell, The 246
Wyndham, Dick 45
Yeats, W. B. 158, 228