Fifty Essays

"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 McGill (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)