‘Fifty Essays’ is a collection of 50 essays by George Orwell. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic.
Included in this collection:
– The Spike (1931)
– A Hanging (1931)
– Bookshop Memories (1936)
– Shooting an Elephant (1936)
– Down the Mine (1937)
– North and South (1937)
– Spilling the Spanish Beans (1937)
– Marrakech (1939)
– Boys’ Weeklies and Frank Richards’s Reply (1940)
– Charles Dickens (1940)
– Charles Reade (1940)
– Inside the Whale (1940)
– The Art of Donald Mc Gill (1941)
– The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius (1941)
– Wells, Hitler and the World State (1941)
– Looking Back on the Spanish War (1942)
– Rudyard Kipling (1942)
– Mark Twain—The Licensed Jester (1943)
– Poetry and the Microphone (1943)
– W B Yeats (1943)
– Arthur Koestler (1944)
– Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali (1944)
– Raffles and Miss Blandish (1944)
– Antisemitism in Britain (1945)
– Freedom of the Park (1945)
– Future of a Ruined Germany (1945)
– Good Bad Books (1945)
– In Defence Of P. G. Wodehouse (1945)
– Nonsense Poetry (1945)
– Notes on Nationalism (1945)
– Revenge is Sour (1945)
– The Sporting Spirit (1945)
– You and the Atomic Bomb (1945)
– A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray (1946)
– A Nice Cup of Tea (1946)
– Books vs. Cigarettes (1946)
– Confessions of a Book Reviewer (1946)
– Decline of the English Murder (1946)
– How the Poor Die (1946)
– James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution (1946)
– Pleasure Spots (1946)
– Politics and the English Language (1946)
– Politics vs. Literature: an Examination of Gulliver’s Travels (1946)
– Riding Down from Bangor (1946)
– Some Thoughts on the Common Toad (1946)
– The Prevention of Literature (1946)
– Why I Write (1946)
– Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool (1947)
– Such, Such were the Joys (1947)
– Writers and Leviathan (1948)
– Reflections on Gandhi (1949)

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