John Rodden has taught at the University of Virginia and the University of Texas, Austin. He has authored or edited a number of books on Orwell, including The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell (2007).
Chronology
Introduction
Part I. Life and Context: 1. Background and school days
2. Burma and the wasted years
3. The struggle to become a writer
4. Orwell's breakthrough
5. Spain and Orwell's political education
6. Orwell's war
7. Last years
Part II. Works: 8. Burmese Days
9. A Clergyman's Daughter
10. Keep the Aspidistra Flying
11. Coming Up for Air
12. Down and Out in Paris and London
13. The Road to Wigan Pier
14. Homage to Catalonia
15. Orwell, the essayist
16. A Hanging and Shooting an Elephant
17. Inside the Whale
18. Critical Essays
19. Animal Farm
20. Nineteen Eighty-Four
Part III. Critical Reception: 21. Starting out in the 1930s
22. Critical controversy and popular success
23. Posthumous fame
24. 'Countdown' to 1-9-8-4
25. Orwell in the twenty-first century
26. An afterlife nonpareil
27. 'If Orwell were alive today'
28. A reputation evergreen
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