Why Orwell Matters

Why Orwell Matters
Cover of the first edition
Author	Christopher Hitchens
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	George Orwell
Publisher	Basic Books
Publication date	2002
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	211
ISBN	0-465-03050-5
OCLC	49922535

Why Orwell Matters, released in the UK as Orwell's Victory, is a book-length biographical essay by Christopher Hitchens. In it, the author relates George Orwell's thoughts on and actions in relation to:

the British Empire;
the left;
the right;
the United States;
English conventions;
feminism and women; and
his controversial list for the British Foreign Office.

At the end of the book, Hitchens critiques Orwell's novels and legacy. An essay sequel to the book, "Why Orwell Still Matters," appears in John Rodden's 2007 compilation The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell (ISBN 978-0-521-85842-7).

External links

Yale Review of books, Why Orwell Matters (by Alex Lee)

Christopher Hitchens

Beliefs	Political views

Works authored	The Missionary Position Letters to a Young Contrarian No One Left to Lie To The Trial of Henry Kissinger Why Orwell Matters A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays Thomas Jefferson: Author of America Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man": A Biography God Is Not Great Hitch-22: A Memoir Arguably: Essays Mortality

Works edited	Blaming the Victims (with Edward Said) The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-Believer

Other	Christopher Hitchens bibliography 57901 Hitchens Hell's Angel The Trials of Henry Kissinger Peter Hitchens

Works by George Orwell

Novels	Burmese Days (1934) A Clergyman's Daughter (1935) Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936) Coming Up for Air (1939) Animal Farm (1945) Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

Nonfiction	Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) Homage to Catalonia (1938)

Essays	"A Hanging" (1931) "The Spike" (1931) "Bookshop Memories" (1936) "Shooting an Elephant" (1936) "Spilling the Spanish Beans" (1937) "Boys' Weeklies" (1940) "Inside the Whale" (1940) "My Country Right or Left" (1940) "England Your England" (1941) "The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius" (1941) "The Art of Donald McGill" (1940) "Poetry and the Microphone" (1943) "Raffles and Miss Blandish" (1944) "Good Bad Books" (1945) "Notes on Nationalism" (1945) "Books v. Cigarettes" (1946) "Confessions of a Book Reviewer" (1946) "Decline of the English Murder" (1946) "A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray" (1946) "How the Poor Die" (1946) "The Moon Under Water" (1946) "A Nice Cup of Tea" (1946) "Pleasure Spots" (1946) "Politics and the English Language" (1946) "The Politics of Starvation" (1946) "Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels" (1946) "The Prevention of Literature" (1946) "Riding Down from Bangor" (1946) "Second Thoughts on James Burnham" (1946) "Some Thoughts on the Common Toad" (1946) "Why I Write" (1946) "Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool" (1947) "The English People" (1947) "Such, Such Were the Joys" (1952)

Related	"As I Please" (1943–1947) "London Letters" (1941–1946) Betrayal of the Left (1941) Inside the Whale and Other Essays (1940) Critical Essays (1946) Searchlight Books Secker and Warburg Victor Gollancz Ltd Eileen O'Shaughnessy Sonia Orwell Orwell's list (1949) Eric & Us Why Orwell Matters Orwell Award Orwell Prize Orwellian

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