This outstanding collection brings together Orwell’s longer, major essays and a fine selection of shorter pieces that includes ‘My Country Right or Left’, ‘Decline of the English Murder’, 'Shooting an Elephant’ and ‘A Hanging’. With great originality and wit Orwell unfolds his views on subjects ranging from the moral enormity of Jonathan Swift’s strange genius and a revaluation of Charles Dickens to the nature of Socialism, a comic yet profound discussion of naughty sea-side picture postcards and a spirited defence of English cooking. Displaying an almost unrivalled mastery of English plain prose style, Orwell’s essays challenge, move and entertain. Contains:
1. Why I Write
2. The Spike
3. A Hanging
4. Shooting An Elephant
5. Bookshop Memories
6. Marrakech
7. Charles Dickens
8. Boys' Weeklies
9. Inside The Whale
10. My Country Right or Left
11. The Lion and the Unicorn
12. Wells, Hitler and the World State
13. The Art of Donald McGill
14. Rudyard Kipling
15. Looking Back on the Spanish War
16. W. B. Yeats
17. Poetry and the Microphone
19. Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali
20. Raffles and Miss Blandish
21. Arthur Koestler
22. Antisemitism in Britain
23. In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse
24. Notes on Nationalism
25. Good Bad Books
26. The Sporting Spirit
27. Nonsense Poetry
28. The Prevention of Literature
29. Books v. Cigarettes
30. Decline of the English Murder
31. Politics and the English Language
32. Some Thoughts on the Common Toad
33. A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray
34. Confessions of a Book Reviewer
35. Politics vs Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels
36. How the Poor Die
37. Riding Down from Bangor
38. Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
39. Such, Such Were the Joys
40. Writers and Leviathan
42. Reflections on Gandhi

Leram - Essays