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Shooting an Elephant Further Reading

Hitchens, Christopher, and Norman Podhoretz. "An Exchange on Orwell." Harper's Vol. 266, No 1593, February 1983, pp. 56-8.

Hitchens responds to an earlier essay by Podhoretz (see below) speculating that had he lived, Orwell would have become a political neoconservative. Hitchens questions several of Podhoretz's contentions regarding Orwell's political attitudes. He especially attacks Podhoretz's contention that Owell maintained a Leftist stance primarily to give weight to his criticism of left-wing politics. Podhoretz responds with selected quotations from Orwell's works to support his contentions.

Hunter, Lynette. George Orwell: The Search for a Voice.

Stony Stratford, England: Open University Press, 1984, 242 p.

An examination of Orwell's narrative voice in all of his major works.

Meyers, Jeffrey. A Reader's Guide to George Orwell. Lon-don: Thames and Hudson, 1975, 192 p.

 Concise and accessible, yet thorough and scholarly, introduction to Orwell's works.

Podhoretz, Norman. "If Orwell...
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