Essays (Penguin Modern Classics)

Name: Essays (Penguin Modern Classics)
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ISBN: 9780141183060

ISBN-10: 0141183063

ISBN-13: 9780141183060

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Authors: George Orwell

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This anthology presents essays by George Orwell. With insight and wit, Orwell writes on a wide series of topics that range from the Spanish Civil War to a defence of English cooking.

Book details

List price: $20.65
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Publication date: 7/4/2000
Pages: 496
Size: 4.43" wide x 6.62" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.396



Introduction



Bibliographical Note


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 Leviathan


Reflections on Gandhi