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GEORGE ORWELL: THE CRITICAL HERITAGE

THE CRITICAL HERITAGE SERIES

General Editor: B.C.Southam

The Critical Heritage series collects together a large body of criticism

on major figures in literature. Each volume presents the

contemporary responses to a particular writer, enabling the student

to follow the formation of critical attitudes to the writer’s work

and its place within a literary tradition.

The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the

history of criticism to fragments of contemporary opinion and little

published documentary material, such as letters and diaries.

Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included

in order to demonstrate fluctuations in reputation following the

writer’s death.

GEORGE ORWELL

THE CRITICAL HERITAGE

Edited by

JEFFREY MEYERS

London and New York

First published in 1975

Reprinted in 1997 by Routledge

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002.

11 New Fetter Lane

London EC4P 4EE

29 West 35th Street

New York, NY 10001

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

ISBN 0–415–15923–7 (Print Edition)

ISBN 0–203–19635–X Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0–203–19638–4 (Glassbook Format)