1984

George Orwell

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Courtois, Stephane, et al. The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Crick, Bernard. George Orwell: A Life. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980.

Cushman, Thomas and John Rodden, eds. George Orwell: Into the Twenty-First Century. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2005.

Hitchens, Christopher. Why Orwell Matters. New York: Basic Books, 2003.

Kubal, David L. Outside the Whale: George Orwell’s Art & Politics. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1972.

Meyers, Jeffrey. Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2000.

Newsinger, John. Orwell’s Politics. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Orwell, George. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story. New York: Signet Classic, 1996.

———. Essays. New York: Random House, 2002.

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