Orwell: Essays Introduction by John Carey

by Orwell, George; Carey, John; Carey, John

• ISBN13: 9780375415036
• ISBN10: 0375415033
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-15
• Publisher: Everyman's Library

Summary

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) A generous and varied selectionthe only hardcover edition availableof the literary and political writings of one of the greatest essayists of the twentieth century. Although best known as the author ofAnimal FarmandNineteen Eighty-four, George Orwell left an even more lastingly significant achievement in his voluminous essays, which dealt with all the great social, political, and literary questions of the day and exemplified an incisive prose style that is still universally admired. Included among the more than 240 essays in this volume are Orwell's famous discussion of pacifism, "My Country Right or Left"; his scathingly complicated views on the dirty work of imperialism in "Shooting an Elephant"; and his very firm opinion on how to make "A Nice Cup of Tea." In his essays, Orwell elevated political writing to the level of art, and his motivating ideashis desire for social justice, his belief in universal freedom and equality, and his concern for truth in languageare as enduringly relevant now, a hundred years after his birth, as ever. From the Hardcover edition.

Author Biography

GEORGE ORWELL (1903-1950) served with the Imperial Police in Burma, fought with the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, and was a member of the Home Guard and a writer for the BBC during World War II. He is the author of many works of non-fiction and fiction.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xv
Select Bibliography	xxxii
Chronology	xxxiv
1928--37
A Farthing Newspaper	5	(3)
The Spike	8	(8)
A Hanging	16	(5)
Clink	21	(9)
Common Loding Houses	30	(3)
Review of Caliban Shrieks	33	(2)
Jack Hilton
Review of Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller; The Wolf at the Door by Robert Francis	35	(3)
Rudyard Kipling	38	(1)
Review of The Fate of the Middle Classes	39	(1)
Alec Brown
Review of The Rock Pool	40	(2)
Cyril Connolly
Shooting an Elephant	42	(8)
Bookshop Memories	50	(4)
Review of Walls Have Mouths by W. F. R. Macartney with Prologue, Epilogue and Comments on the Chapters by Compton Mackenzie	54	(3)
In Defence of the Novel	57	(6)
Review of The Novel To-day	63	(3)
Philip Henderson
Spilling the Spanish Beans	66	(8)
Unpublished Response to Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War	74	(3)
1938
Notes on the Spanish Militias	77	(12)
Review of Assignment in Utopia	89	(2)
Eugene Lyons
Why I Join the I.L.P.	91	(2)
Review of The Civil War in Spain	93	(4)
Frank Jellinek
Political Reflections on the Crisis	97	(5)
Review of Gypsies	102	(5)
Martin Block
Barbara Kuczynski
Duncan Taylor
1939
Review of Power: A New Social Analysis	107	(1)
Bertrand Russell
Review of Russia under Soviet Rule	108	(3)
N. de Basily
Review of Communism and Man	111	(3)
F. J. Sheed
Review of The Clue of History	114	(3)
John Macmurray
Democracy in the British Army	117	(4)
Marrakech	121	(6)
Review of Union Now	127	(8)
Clarence K. Streit
1940
Charles, Dickens	135	(50)
Boy's Weeklies	185	(26)
Inside the Whale	211	(38)
Review of Mein Kampf, by Adolf Hitler, unabrkidge translation	249	(3)
Notes on the Way	252	(7)
New Words	259	(10)
Review of The Thirties	269	(3)
Malcom Muggeridge
Review of My Life: The Autobiography of Havelock Ellis	272	(3)
To the Editor, Time and Tide	275	(2)
Review of English, Ways by Jack Hilton; with an Introduction by J. Middleton Murry and Photographs by J. Dixon Scott	277	(2)
Review of Barbarians and Philistines: Democracy and the Public Schools	279	(2)
T. C. Worsley
My Country Right or Left	281	(10)
1941
The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius	291	(58)
The Frontiers of Art and Propaganda	349	(3)
Tolstoy and Shakespeare	352	(5)
The Meaning of a Poem	357	(3)
Literature and Totalitarianism	360	(5)
Dear Doktor Goebbels -- Your British Friends are Feeding Fine!	365	(2)
Wells, Hitler and the World State	367	(6)
The Art of Donald McGill	373	(11)
No, Not One	384	(9)
1942
Money and Guns	393	(4)
Rudyard Kipling	397	(14)
The Re-discovery of Europe	411	(10)
Review of The Sword and the Sickle	421	(4)
Mulk Raju Anand
T. S. Eliot	425	(6)
Looking Back on the Spanish War	431	(20)
Imaginary Interview: George Orwell and Jonathan Swift	451	(12)
1943
Review of The Development of William Butler Yeats	463	(6)
V. K. Narayana Menon
Not Enough Money: A Sketch of George Gissing	469	(2)
Literature and the Left	471	(3)
Gandhi in Mayfair. Review of Beggar My Neighbour	474	(11)
Lionel Fielden
Review of Subject India	485	(3)
Henry Noel Brailsford
As I Please 1	488	(4)
As I Please 2	492	(2)
As I Please 3	494	(3)
Review of Collected Poems of W.H. Davies	497	(3)
As I Please 4	500	(3)
Can Socialists by Happy?	503	(7)
As I Please 5	510	(7)
1944
As I Please 6	517	(3)
As I Please 7	520	(3)
Review of The Machivallians	523	(3)
James Burnham
As I Please 8	526	(3)
As I Please 9	529	(4)
As I Please 10	533	(4)
As I Please 11	537	(3)
A Hundred Up [Review of Martin Chuzzlewit	540	(3)
Charles Dickens]
As I Please 12	543	(4)
As I Please 13	547	(2)
Review of The Edge of the Abyss	549	(3)
Alfred Noyes
Review of James Joyce	552	(3)
Harry Levin
As I Please 14	555	(3)
As I Please 15	558	(4)
Rejected Review of Faith, Reason and Civilisation	562	(3)
Harold J. Laski
As I Please 16	565	(2)
Review of The Way of a Countryman	567	(3)
Sir William Beach Thomas
As I Please 17	570	(4)
Review of Tolstoy: His Life and Work	574	(1)
Derrick Leon
As I Please 18	575	(4)
As I Please 19	579	(3)
As I Please 20	582	(4)
Review of Cricket Country	586	(3)
Edmund Blunden
As I Please 21	589	(3)
As I Please 22	592	(3)
As I Please 23	595	(3)
As I Please 24	598	(4)
As I Please 25	602	(3)
Review of '42 to '44: A Contemporary Memoir Upon Human Behaviour During the Crisis of the World Revolution	605	(3)
H. G. Wells
The English People	608	(40)
As I Please 26	648	(2)
Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali	650	(10)
Are Books Too Dear?	660	(3)
As I Please 27	663	(3)
As I Please 28	666	(3)
As I Please 29	669	(3)
As I Please 30	672	(3)
As I Please 31	675	(4)
As I Please 32	679	(3)
Review of In a Strange Land: Essays	682	(2)
Eric Gill
As I Please 33	684	(4)
As I Please 34	688	(3)
As I Please 35	691	(4)
Propaganda and Demotic Speech	695	(7)
As I Please 36	702	(3)
As I Please 37	705	(3)
As I Please 38	708	(4)
Review of Milton: Man and Thinker	712	(2)
Denis Saurat
As I Please 39	714	(3)
Raffles and Miss Blandish	717	(13)
As I Please 40	730	(4)
As I Please 41	734	(3)
Arthur Koestler	737	(12)
As I Please 42	749	(3)
Tobias Smollett: Scotland's Best Novelist	752	(4)
As I Please 43	756	(4)
As I Please 44	760	(4)
As I Please 45	764	(3)
As I Please 46	767	(3)
As I Please 47	770	(3)
As I Please 48	773	(4)
As I Please 49	777	(3)
Funny, But Not Vulgar	780	(6)
As I Please 50	786	(3)
As I Please 51	789	(3)
Oysters and Brown Stout	792	(4)
Review of An Interlude in Spain	796	(2)
Charles d'Ydewalle
Eric Sutton
As I Please 52	798	(7)
1945
Review of Der Fuhrer	805	(3)
Conrad Heiden
As I Please 53	808	(3)
As I Please 54	811	(4)
Review of The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus	815	(2)
As I Please 55	817	(3)
As I Please 56	820	(3)
As I Please 57	823	(3)
As I Please 58	826	(4)
As I Please 59	830	(3)
In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse	833	(14)
Anti-Semitism in Britain	847	(10)
Poetry and the Microphone	857	(8)
Notes on Nationalism	865	(19)
Personal Notes on Scientifiction	884	(4)
The Freedom of the Press (Animal Farm)	888	(9)
Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment	897	(2)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Constance Garnett
Revenge Is Sour	899	(4)
You and the Atom Bomb	903	(4)
What is Science?	907	(3)
Review of Drums under the Windows	910	(3)
Sean O'Casey
Introduction to Love of Life and Other Stories	913	(7)
Jack London
Review of Mind at the End of Its Tether	920	(3)
H. G. Wells
Catastrophic Gradualism	923	(4)
Good Bad Books	927	(4)
The Prevention of Literature	931	(14)
Review of The Prussian Office	945	(3)
D. H. Lawrence
Bare Christmas for the Children	948	(3)
The Case for the Open Fire	951	(3)
Politics and the English Language	954	(13)
The Sporting Spirit	967	(4)
In Defence of English Cooking	971	(2)
Nonsense Poetry: The Lear Omnibus	973	(4)
R. L. Megroz
Banish This Uniform	977	(6)
1946
Just Junk -- But Who Could Resist It?	983	(2)
Pleasure Spots	985	(5)
A Nice Cup of Tea	990	(2)
The Politics of Starvation	992	(4)
Songs We Used to Sing	996	(20)
The Intellectual Revolt	999	(4)
What Is Socialism?	1003	(4)
The Christian Reformers	1007	(4)
Pacifism and Progress	1011	(5)
But Are We Really Ruder? No	1016	(2)
Bad Climates are Best	1018	(3)
Books v. Cigarettes	1021	(5)
The Moon Under Water	1026	(2)
Decline of the English Murder	1028	(4)
Words and Henry Miller	1032	(4)
Classics Reviewed: The Martyrdom of Man	1036	(4)
In Front of Your Nose	1040	(4)
Some Thoughts on the Common Toad	1044	(4)
A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray	1048	(4)
James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution	1052	(21)
Confessions of a Book Reviewer	1073	(4)
Review of Ants and Men	1077	(2)
Caryl P. Haskins
Why I Write	1079	(7)
The Cost of Letters	1086	(2)
Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels	1088	(20)
How the Poor Die	1108	(10)
As I Please 60	1118	(4)
As I Please 61	1122	(3)
As I Please 62	1125	(4)
Riding Down from Bangor	1129	(6)
As I Please 63	1135	(4)
As I Please 64	1139	(3)
As I Please 65	1142	(4)
As I Please 66	1146	(4)
As I Please 67	1150	(7)
1947
As I Please 68	1157	(3)
As I Please 69	1160	(4)
As I Please 70	1164	(4)
As I Please 71	1168	(4)
As I Please 72	1172	(4)
As I Please 73	1176	(4)
As I Please 74	1180	(1)
As I Please 75A	1181	(1)
As I Please 75B	1182	(1)
Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool	1183	(17)
As I Please 76	1200	(3)
As I Please 77	1203	(4)
As I Please 78	1207	(3)
Preface to the Ukrainian Edition of Animal Farm	1210	(5)
As I Please 79	1215	(4)
Burnham's View of the Contemporary World Struggle	1219	(14)
As I Please 80	1233	(4)
Review of Lady Gregory's Journals	1237	(4)
Lennox Robinson
Toward European Unity	1241	(6)
In Defence of Comrade Zilliacus	1247	(10)
1948
Marx and Russia	1257	(2)
Review of The Atlantic Islands	1259	(2)
Kenneth Williamson
Writers and Leviathan	1261	(7)
Britain's Left-Wing Press	1268	(6)
Review of Spearhead: Ten Years' Experimental Writing in America	1274	(7)
James Laughlin
Review of the Soul of Man under Socialism	1281	(2)
Oscar Wilde
George Gissing	1283	(8)
Such, Such Were the Joys	1291	(42)
Review of Great Morning	1333	(4)
Osbert Sitwell
Review of The Heart of the Matter	1337	(5)
Graham Greene
Review of Portrait of the Anti-Semite	1342	(1)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Erik de Mauny
Review of Notes towards the Definition of Culture	1343	(6)
T. S. Eliot
1949
Reflections on Gandhi	1349	(8)
Evelyn Waugh	1357	(4)
A Prize for Ezra Pound	1361	(4)
Author's Notes	1365