FC; Half title; Also Available from Bloomsbury; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface: Religion and 'Saint George'; 1 Educating Eric Blair and Burmese Days; Family religious influences and Sunnylands Catholic Convent School (1903-11); St Cyprian's, Eastbourne, and Eton College, Windsor (1911-21); Burma (1922-7) and Burmese Days (1934); 2 Paris and London; Eric Blair as a social and religious commentator (1927-32); Eric Blair becomes George Orwell, and Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)

3 A Clergyman's Daughter, Keep the Aspidistra Flying and The Road to Wigan PierA Clergyman's Daughter (1935) and 'Anglican atheists'; Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936); The Road to Wigan Pier (1937); 4 Homage to Catalonia, Coming Up For Air and the Outbreak of War; Homage to Catalonia (1938); Marrakech and Coming Up For Air (1939); The outbreak of war; Inside the Whale (1940); 5 The Second World War; The Lion and the Unicorn (1941) and the Second World War (1941-2); 1943: A wasted year; 1944: A productive year; 6 1945-6 and Animal Farm; 1945: Anti-Semitism

Christianity, Communism and Animal Farm (1945)1946: Secular or Christian Socialism, anti-Semitism and pamphleteering; 7 1947-9 and Nineteen Eighty-Four; 1947-9; Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and its precursors; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index