Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: Text, Sources, Criticism

Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: Text, Sources, Criticism. Irving Howe, ed. New York: Harcourt, 1963, 1982.

Includes selections from Y. Zamiatin's We, A. Huxley's Brave New World (cited under Fiction), and less well-known sources for Nineteen Eighty-Four. The "Criticism" section includes Erich Fromm's Afterword to the 1961 NAL edn. of Orwell's novel, two of Howe's critical essays, and the works of a number of other critics and reviewers—plus two items on "The Politics of Totalitarianism," giving the political background for Nineteen Eighty-Four: Richard Lowenthal's essay "Our Peculiar Hell," and from Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism the chapter on "Ideology and Terror: A Novel Form of Government."