Essays
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Essays

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eBook - ePub

Essays

Unabridged Edition

About this book

Here are collected all Orwell's longer, major essays and a fine selection of shorter pieces that includes 'Decline of the English Murder', 'Shooting an Elephant' and 'A Hanging'. The essays that make up this collection testify to the greatness and genius of Orwell also as political writer. Whatever the subject is, the attitude adopted is always one of direct testimony and personal disinterestedness: it is an elementary yet subversive formula, the same one at the origin of the non-alignment that long made Orwell, a refractory individualist, an anarchic pauperist, so unemphatic, a writer who seemed suspicious to the right and to the left at the same time.

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Table of contents

  1. ESSAYS
  2. By the same author for Cactus:
  3. THE SPIKE
  4. A HANGING (1931)
  5. SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT (1936)
  6. DOWN THE MINE (1937) (FROM "THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER")
  7. NORTH AND SOUTH (FROM "THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER") (1937)
  8. SPILLING THE SPANISH BEANS (1937)
  9. MARRAKECH (1939)
  10. BOYS' WEEKLIES AND FRANK RICHARDS'S REPLY (1940)
  11. CHARLES DICKENS (1940)
  12. CHARLES READE (1940)
  13. INSIDE THE WHALE (1940)
  14. THE ART OF DONALD MCGILL (1941)
  15. THE LION AND THE UNICORN: SOCIALISM AND THE ENGLISH GENIUS (1941)
  16. WELLS, HITLER AND THE WORLD STATE (1941)
  17. LOOKING BACK ON THE SPANISH WAR (1942)
  18. RUDYARD KIPLING (1942)
  19. MARK TWAIN—THE LICENSED JESTER (1943)
  20. POETRY AND THE MICROPHONE (1943)
  21. W B YEATS (1943)
  22. ARTHUR KOESTLER (1944)
  23. BENEFIT OF CLERGY: SOME NOTES ON SALVADOR DALI (1944)
  24. RAFFLES AND MISS BLANDISH (1944)
  25. ANTISEMITISM IN BRITAIN (1945)
  26. FREEDOM OF THE PARK (1945)
  27. FUTURE OF A RUINED GERMANY (1945)
  28. GOOD BAD BOOKS
  29. IN DEFENCE OF P. G. WODEHOUSE (1945)
  30. NONSENSE POETRY
  31. NOTES ON NATIONALISM (1945)
  32. POSITIVE NATIONALISM
  33. TRANSFERRED NATIONALISM
  34. NEGATIVE NATIONALISM
  35. REVENGE IS SOUR (1945)
  36. THE SPORTING SPIRIT
  37. YOU AND THE ATOMIC BOMB (1945)
  38. A GOOD WORD FOR THE VICAR OF BRAY
  39. A NICE CUP OF TEA (1946)
  40. BOOKS VS. CIGARETTES
  41. CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK REVIEWER
  42. DECLINE OF THE ENGLISH MURDER
  43. HOW THE POOR DIE
  44. JAMES BURNHAM AND THE MANAGERIAL REVOLUTION
  45. PLEASURE SPOTS
  46. POLITICS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
  47. POLITICS VS. LITERATURE: AN EXAMINATION OF GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
  48. RIDING DOWN FROM BANGOR
  49. SOME THOUGHTS ON THE COMMON TOAD
  50. THE PREVENTION OF LITERATURE
  51. WHY I WRITE (1946)
  52. LEAR, TOLSTOY AND THE FOOL
  53. SUCH, SUCH WERE THE JOYS (1947)
  54. WRITERS AND LEVIATHAN (1948)
  55. REFLECTIONS ON GANDHI