Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell''s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) remains a book of the moment. This Companion builds on successive waves of generational inheritance and debate in the novel''s reception by asking new questions about how and why Nineteen Eighty-Four was written, what it means, and why it matters. Chapters on a selection of the novel''s interpretative contexts, the literary histories from which it is in...