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)