‘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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Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism. As a writer, Orwell produced literary criticism and poetry, fiction and polemical journalism; and is best known for the allegorical novella ‘Animal Farm’ (1945) and the dystopian novel ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ (1949).
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