num_pages: 466
description: 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.Contents:Why I WriteThe SpikeA HangingShooting an ElephantBookshop MemoriesMarrakechCharles DickensBoys' WeekliesInside the WhaleMy Country Right or LeftThe Lion and the UnicornWells, Hitler and the World StateThe Art of Donald McGillRudyard KiplingLooking Back on the Spanish WarW.B. YeatsPoetry and the MicrophoneBenefit of Clergy; Some Notes on Salvador DaliRaffles and Miss BlandishArthur KoestlerAntisemitism in BritainIn Defence of P.G. WodehouseNotes on NationalismGood Bad BooksThe Sporting SpiritNonsense PoetryThe Prevention of LiteratureBooks v. CigarettesDecline of the English MurderPolitics and the English LanguageSome Thoughts on the Common ToadA Good Word for the Vicar of BrayConfessions of a Book ReviewerPolitics vs Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's TravelsHow the Poor DieRiding Down from BangorLear, Tolstoy and the FoolSuch, Such Were the JoysWriters and LeviathanReflections on Gandhi
language: English
title: Essays
titlecomplete: Essays
genres: 20th Century, Essays, Classics, History, British Literature, Politics, Philosophy, Writing, Nonfiction, Literature
ratings_count: 7566
publisher: Penguin Classics