POEM: ‘Awake! Young Men of England’
POEM: ‘Our hearts are married, but we are too young’
‘How a Nation Is Exploited: The British Empire in Burma’
REVIEW: J.B. Priestley, Angel Pavement
POEM: ‘Sometimes in the middle autumn days’
POEM: ‘Summer-like for an instant’
REVIEW: G.K. Chesterton, Criticisms and Opinions of the Works of Charles Dickens
POEM: ‘On a Ruined Farm Near the His Majesty’s Voice Gramophone Factory’
INTRODUCTION to the French Edition of Down and Out in Paris and London
REVIEW: Kenneth Saunders, The Ideals of East and West
REVIEW: Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
REVIEW: Peter Fleming, News from Tartary
POEM: ‘A happy vicar I might have been’
REVIEW: Franz Borkenau, The Spanish Cockpit
RESPONSE to ‘Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War’
REVIEW: Eugene Lyons, Assignment in Utopia
EXTRACT from ‘Looking Back on the Spanish War’
POEM: ‘The Italian soldier shook my hand’
REVIEW: Bertrand Russell, Power: A New Social Analysis
‘Democracy in the British Army’
REVIEW: Tom Harrisson and Charles Madge, War Begins at Home
REVIEW: Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
REVIEW: Malcolm Muggeridge, The Thirties
THEATRE REVIEW: Garrison Theatre
REVIEW: Jim Phelan, Jail Journey
REVIEW: E.L. Grant Wilson, Priest Island
LETTER to Time and Tide: ‘On preparation for imminent invasion’
REVIEW: A.J. Jenkinson, What do Boys and Girls Read?
THEATRE REVIEW: George Bernard Shaw, The Devil’s Disciple
REVIEW: Sacheverell Sitwell, Poltergeists
REVIEW: T.C. Worsley, Barbarians and Philistines: Democracy and the Public Schools
REVIEW: Hadley Cantril, et al., The Invasion from Mars (Orson Welles’s broadcast)
FILM REVIEWS: Eyes of the Navy, The Heart of Britain, Unholy War
EXTRACT from The Lion and the Unicorn: ‘Proposed War Aims’
BROADCAST: Frontiers of Art and Propaganda: ‘Literary Criticism’
BROADCAST: ‘Literature and Totalitarianism’
FILM REVIEW: Kipps (H.G. Wells)
BROADCAST: ‘A Magazine Programme’
BROADCAST: ‘Review on Third Anniversary of Outbreak of the War’
LETTER to the Eastern Service Director
BROADCAST: Extracts from Answering You
BROADCAST: ‘Imaginary Interview: George Orwell and Jonathan Swift’
‘Background of French Morocco’
REVIEW: V.K. Narayana Menon, The Development of William Butler Yeats
BROADCAST: ‘Victories at Rostov and Kharkov’
Orwell’s last News Review for India
‘Not Enough Money: A Sketch of George Gissing’
REVIEW: Tangye Lean, Voices in the Darkness
‘Three Years of Home Guard: Unique Symbol of Stability’
EXTRACT from ‘London Letter’, 23 May 1943(?): Unexpected Shortages
REVIEW: H.N. Brailsford, Subject India
BROADCAST: ‘Your Questions Answered: Wigan Pier’
EXTRACT from ‘As I Please’, 3 December 1943: Anglo-American Relations in Wartime
EXTRACT from ‘As I Please’, 10 December 1943: Skin Colour and Living Standards; Insulting Nicknames
EXTRACT from ‘London Letter’, 15 January 1944: Parliament; London in Wartime
EXTRACTS from ‘As I Please’, 21 January 1944: The BBC; On Being Negative – Woolworth’s Roses
EXTRACT from ‘As I Please’, 28 January 1944: Ezra Pound
EXTRACT from ‘As I Please’, 11 February 1944: Anti-Semitism
EXTRACT from ‘As I Please’, 18 February 1944: The Equalising Effect of Clothes Rationing
EXTRACTS from ‘As I Please’, 3 March 1944: Life after Death; Decay in Christian Belief
EXTRACT from ‘As I Please’, 10 March 1944: Dickens and Country Life
‘As I Please’, 31 March 1944: On Revenge Killings
EXTRACT from ‘As I Please’, 21 April 1944: Why Borrow Foreign Words?
EXTRACT from ‘As I Please’, 5 May 1944: I.A. Richards’s Practical Criticism
EXTRACT from ‘As I Please’, 26 May 1944: The Matrimonial Post
EXTRACT from ‘As I Please’, 11 June 1944: On the Perversion of Book Reviewing
REVIEW: Hilda Martindale, From One Generation to Another
The Orwells Bombed Out, 28 June 1944
EXTRACT from ‘As I Please’, 7 July 1944: The Flying Bomb
EXTRACT from ‘London Letter’, 24 July 1944: Highly Unpopular Subjects
EXTRACT from ‘As I Please’, 11 August 1944: The Colour Bar
REVIEW: Marie Paneth, Branch Street
EXTRACT from ‘As I Please’, 1 September 1944: The Warsaw Uprising
EXTRACT from ‘As I Please’, 15 September 1944: A Paris Taxi-Driver
‘London Letter’, October 1944(?): I Have Tried to Tell the Truth: errors and mistakes
EXTRACT from ‘As I Please’, 24 November 1944: On the Rudeness of Shopkeepers
EXTRACT from ‘As I Please’, 4 December 1944: The V2
REVIEW: L.A.G. Strong, Authorship
‘In Defence of P.G. Wodehouse’
‘Paris Puts a Gay Face on Its Miseries’
‘The French Believe We Have Had a Revolution’
LETTER to Tribune: ‘The Polish Trial’
RESPONSE to ‘Orwell and the Stinkers’
REVIEW: Pierre Maillaud, The English Way
REVIEW: ‘Freedom and Happiness’ [Yevgeny Zamyatin, We]
‘The Cost of Radio Programmes’
REVIEW: Robert Tressall, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
BROADCAST: ‘The Written Word’: The first sustained critical assessment of Orwell’s journalism
‘As I Please’, 15 November 1946: Polish Immigration; On Hanging
EXTRACT from ‘As I Please’, 22 November 1946: Intelligence and Popularity of Newspapers
EXTRACT from ‘As I Please’, 29 November 1946: What Is Dominant: a Desire for Power or for Wealth?
‘As I Please’, 6 December 1946: Trilby and Anti-Semitism; Authors’ Decline; Four-letter Words
‘As I Please’, 20 December 1946: Overindulging at Christmas
EXTRACTS from ‘As I Please’, 14 February 1947: Poles in Scotland; Scottish Nationalism
‘As I Please’, 28 February 1947: Handwriting and Creative Writing
EXTRACT from ‘As I Please’, 14 March 1947: Rationalised Spelling and Imperial Measure
EXTRACTS from ‘As I Please’, 28 March 1947: Mass Observation; Seeking Spring
‘In Defence of Comrade Zilliacus’
REVIEW: James Laughlin, ed., Spearhead: Ten Years’ Experimental Writing in America
REVIEW: Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter
REVIEW: Jean-Paul Sartre, Portrait of the Anti-Semite
REVIEW: T.S. Eliot, Notes Towards the Definition of Culture
Last of Orwell’s Statements on 1984
Orwell’s Death, 21 January 1950
Appendix I: Passage cut by Orwell from final text of Nineteen Eighty-Four
Appendix II: Estimates of Orwell’s Earnings, 1922–45