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George ORWELL
(1903-1950)
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Collections of George Orwell Essays
Inside the Whale
Critical Essays
Dickens, Dali and Others
Shooting an Elephant and other Essays
England Your England
Such, Such Were the Joys
A Collection of Essays
Collected Essays
Decline of the English Murder
Collected Esays, Journalism and Letters Vol 1
Collected Esays, Journalism and Letters Vol 2
Collected Esays, Journalism and Letters Vol 3
Collected Esays, Journalism and Letters Vol 4
Abbrev.
IW
CRE
DDO
SAE
EYE
SSWJ
ACE
COE
DEM
Essays Vol 1
Essays Vol 2
Essays Vol 3
Essays Vol 4
Year Pub.
1940
1946
1946
1950
1953
1953
1954
1961
1965
1968
1968
1968
1968
The following table shows the essays which comprise the various collections
listed above.
Our compilation, "Fifty
Orwell's Essays", includes
most of the titles listed below.
Essay Title
IW
CRE
DDO
SAE
EYE
SSWJ
ACE
COE
DEM
Essays (Vol.)
A Good Word for the Vicar Of Bray
x
4
A Hanging
x
x
x
1
A Nice Cup of Tea
3
Anti Semitism in Britain
x
x
x
3
Arthur Koestler
x
x
x
3
Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali
x
x
x
x
3
Books vs. Cigarettes
x
4
Bookshop Memories
1
Boys' Weeklies
x
x
x
x
x
1
Charles Dickens
x
x
x
x
x
x
1
Charles Reade
2
Confessions of a Book Reviewer;
x
4
Decline of the English Murder
x
x
4
Down the Mine (from "The Road to Wigan Pier")
x
0
The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius
x
x
x
2
Freedom of the Park
4
Future of a Ruined Germany
0
George Gissing
4
Good Bad Books
x
4
How the Poor Die
x
x
x
4
In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse
x
x
x
3
Inside The Whale
x
x
x
x
x
1
James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution - also known as "Second
Thoughts On James Burnham"
x
x
4
Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
x
x
4
Looking Back on the Spanish War
x
x
x
x
2
Mark Twain - The Licensed Jester
2
Marrakech
x
x
x
x
1
Nonsense Poetry
x
4
North and South (from "The Road to Wigan Pier")
x
0
Notes on Nationalism
x
x
x
x
3
Poetry and the Microphone
x
x
x
2
Politics and the English Language
x
x
x
4
Politics vs. Literature
x
x
4
Raffles and Miss Blandish
x
x
x
x
x
3
Reflections on Gandhi
x
x
4
Revenge is Sour
4
Riding Down from Bangor
x
4
Rudyard Kipling
x
x
x
x
2
Shooting an Elephant
x
x
x
1
Some Thoughts on the Common Toad
x
4
Spilling the Spanish Beans
1
Such, Such Were the Joys
x
x
4
The Art of Donald Mcgill
x
x
x
x
x
2
The Prevention of Literature
x
x
4
The Spike
1
The Sporting Spirit
x
4
W B Yeats
x
x
x
2
Wells, Hitler and the World State
x
x
x
2
Why I Write
x
x
x
x
x
1
Writers and Leviathan
x
x
x
4
You and the Atomic Bomb
4