A selective list of online literary criticism for George Orwell, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Web Sites
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Atwood, Margaret. Transcript of a talk on George Orwell's Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, by novelist Margaret Atwood, June 17, 2003, British Broadcasting Company
Breton, Rob. "Crisis? Whose crisis? George Orwell and liberal guilt." College Literature, Fall 2002
Hopkins, Chris. A substantial introduction to George Orwell's writing from the Literary Encyclopedia. On Burmese Days; on Animal Farm; on Nineteen Eighty-Four
Rae, Patricia. Mr. Charrington's junk shop On modernist influences in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Twentieth Century Literature, Summer, 1997
A feature on George Orwell, which includes a biography by Bernard Crick, who writes "Orwell was quintessentially English in his love of the countryside and in his Protestant conscience, which made him angry at injustice and concerned for the plight of the poor, even if he was a firm rationalist and unbeliever." From the British Broadcasting Company
Many articles on George Orwell from published sources such as Time Magazine and the New York Review of Books, 1946 to 2003. Extensive photos of Orwell's first editions. Fan web site.
The web site of Students for an Orwellian Society
(taken offline or moved) Details about George Orwell manuscript holdings at University College, London
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