The Penguin essays of George Orwell

Author(s)

• Orwell, George

Bibliographic Information

The Penguin essays of George Orwell

（Penguin twentieth-century classics）

Penguin in association with Secker & Warburg, 1994

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This anthology includes George Orwell's most famous pieces, among them "My Country Right or Left", "Decline of the English Murder" and "How the Poor Die". Orwell writes on a series of wide-ranging topics, from the Spanish Civil War to a defence of English cooking, from Charles Dickens to Rudyard Kipling, P.G. Wodehouse, book reviewing and the nature of socialism.

Table of Contents

• "Why I Write"
• "The Spike"
• "A Hanging"
• "Shooting an Elephant"
• "Bookshop Memories"
• "Marrakech"
• "Charles Dickens"
• "Boys' Weeklies"
• "Inside the Whale"
• "My Country Right or Left"
• "The Lion and the Unicorn"
• "Wells, Hitler and the World State"
• "The Art of Donald McGill"
• "Rudyard Kipling"
• "Looking Back on the Spanish War"
• "W.B. Yeats"
• "Poetry and the Microphone"
• "Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali"
• "Raffles and Miss Blandish"
• "Arthur Koestler"
• "Antisemitism in Britain"
• "In Defence of P.G. Wodehouse"
• "Notes on Nationalism"
• "Good Bad Books"
• "The Sporting Spirit"
• "Nonsense Poetry"
• "The Prevention of Literature"
• "Books v Cigarettes"
• "Decline of the English Murder"
• "Politics and the English Language"
• "Some Thoughts on the Common Toad"
• "A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray"
• "Confessions of a Book Reviewer"
• "Politics vs Literature: An Examination of "Gulliver's Travels""
• "How the Poor Die"
• "Riding Down from Bangor"
• "Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool"
• "Such, Such Were the Joys"
• "Writers and the Leviathan"
• "Reflections on Gandhi".

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA31533474
• ISBN:
  • 0140188037
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Harmondsworth
• Pages/Volumes: xxv, 466 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • DC19 : 828/.91208
• Subject Headings:
  • PRECIS : Prose in English, 1900-1945 - Texts
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA07487461