As the title suggests, the eleven essays collected in this volume originated in an international Symposium organised by the editors to celebrate the century of George Orwell's birth. Written by some of the best-known Orwellian specialists, the essays selected in this book reassess Orwell's writings and establish his significance in the history of English Literature, from the vantage point of the contributors' early twenty-first-century perspective. Bisherige Forschungsschwerpunkte der Herausgeberinnen: Contemporary English Literature; Other Literatures in English