Sponsored by the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Recorded for the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature.

Issued also as monograph under title: George Orwell & Nineteen eighty-four.

What Orwell really wrote / by Peter Davison -- Orwell, the man / by Jenni Calder -- The Englishness of George Orwell / by Peter Stansky -- Nineteen eighty-four, politics and fable / by Denis Donoghue -- Nineteen eighty-four and political reality, returning the shock / by Alfred Kazin -- Nineteen eighty-four, a novel of the 1930s / by Jeffrey Meyers -- The meaning of Nineteen eighty-four in 1984 / by Bernard Crick -- Orwell's legacy / by Nathan Scott, Jr.

Recorded Apr. 30 and May 1, 1984, in the L. Quincy Mumford Room at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

Presents proceedings of a conference exploring the life of George Orwell as well as the political and literary aspects of his novel, Nineteen eighty-four.

Sound cassette playback copy. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Magnetic Recording Laboratory, 1984 (LWO 18795). 7 sound cassettes : analog.