Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Afterthoughts on His Afterlives -- Part One If the Mantle Fits . . . -- Chapter 1 Virtuous Men? or "The American Orwell" (I) -- Chapter 2 "Dear Dwight," or "The American Orwell" (II) -- Chapter 3 "St. Irving"? or "The American Orwell" (III) -- Chapter 4 Fellow Contrarians? or "The (Anglo-)American Orwell" (IV) -- Chapter 5 "True Patriot and Traditionalist," or the (Hungarian-)American Orwell (V) -- Part Two Politics and the German Language -- Chapter 6 The (Un-rosy) State of Orwellian Unlearning -- Chapter 7 Books That Led to Miniluv -- Chapter 8 2 + 2 = 5? -- Chapter 9 Behind the Wall, or How the Eurasian Reich Viewed Oceania -- Chapter 10 Revenge of the Thought Police -- Part Three The Un(der)examined Orwell -- Chapter 11 Did Papa Rescue St. George? -- Chapter 12 Big Rock (Sugar)candy Mountain? -- Chapter 13 Literacy and the English Language -- Chapter 14 George Orwell, Literary Theorist? -- Chapter 15 The Architectonics of Room 101 -- Chapter 16 The Review Orwell Never Wrote? -- Chapter 17 The Life Orwell Never Lived? -- Chapter 18 The Centenarian, Our Contemporary -- Conclusion If He Had Lived . . . -- Notes -- Index.