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Index
Cover
Title Page
Contents
About the Author
Introduction
Poem: ‘Awake! Young Men of England’
Poem: ‘Our minds are married, but we are too young’
‘John Flory: My Epitaph’
‘A Farthing Newspaper’
‘How a Nation Is Exploited: The British Empire in Burma’
Review: J.B. Priestley, Angel Pavement
‘Common Lodging Houses’
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
‘Rudyard Kipling’
Review: Peter Fleming, News from Tartary
‘In Defence of the Novel’
Poem: ‘A happy vicar I might have been’
‘Spilling the Spanish Beans’
Review: Franz Borkenau, The Spanish Cockpit
Response to ‘Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War’
‘The Lure of Profundity’
Review: Eugene Lyons, Assignment in Utopia
‘Why I Join the I.L.P.’
Extract from ‘Looking Back on the Spanish War’
Poem: ‘The Italian soldier shook my hand’ from ‘Looking Back on the Spanish War’
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
‘New Words’
Review: Malcolm Muggeridge, The Thirties
Theatre Review: Garrison Theatre, Palladium
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?
Reviews: Jack London, The Iron Heel; H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Awakes; Aldous Huxley, Brave New World; Ernest Bramah, The Secret of the League
Theatre Review: George Bernard Shaw, The Devil’s Disciple, Piccadilly Theatre
Review: Sacheverell Sitwell, Poltergeists
Theatre Review: Applesauce, Holborn Empire
Review: T.C. Worsley, Barbarians and Philistines: Democracy and the Public Schools
Review: Hadley Cantril with Hazel Gaudet and Herta Herzog, The Invasion from Mars
‘Our Opportunity’
‘London Letter’, 3 January 1941: The Political Situation; The Intellectual Life of England; Air raids
Documentary 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)
‘London Letter’, 1 January 1942: Whom Are We Fighting Against?; Our Allies; Defeatism and German Propaganda; The Literary Front; The Food Situation
Extracts from ‘London Letter’, 8 May 1942: The British Crisis; Churchill’s Position; Sir Stafford Cripps; Attitudes to the USSR
Broadcast: ‘A Magazine Programme’
Broadcast: ‘Review on Third Anniversary of Outbreak of the War’
‘Thomas Hardy Looks at War’
‘T.S. Eliot’
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’
Broadcast: ‘Jack London’
Orwell’s last News Review for India, 59
‘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
‘Literature and the Left’
‘The Detective Story’
Review: H.N. Brailsford, Subject India
Broadcast: ‘Your Questions Answered: Wigan Pier’
Extract from ‘As I Please’, 1: Anglo-American Relations in Wartime
Extract from ‘As I Please’, 2: Skin Colour and Living Standards; Insulting Nicknames
Extracts from ‘London Letter’, 15 January 1944: Parliament; London in Wartime
Extracts from ‘As I Please’, 8: The BBC; On Being Negative – Woolworth’s Roses
Extract from ‘As I Please’, 9: Ezra Pound
Extract from ‘As I Please’, 11: Anti-Semitism
Extract from ‘As I Please’, 12: The Equalising Effect of Clothes Rationing
Extracts from ‘As I Please’, 14: Life after Death; Decay in Christian Belief
Extract from ‘As I Please’, 15: Dickens and Country Life
Letter to Victor Gollancz
‘As I Please’, 18: On Revenge Killings
Extract from ‘As I Please’, 21: Why Borrow Foreign Words?
Extract from ‘As I Please’, 23: I.A. Richards’s
Extract from ‘As I Please’, 26: The Matrimonial Post
Extract from ‘As I Please’, 28: On the Perversion of Book Reviewing
Review: Hilda Martindale, CBE, From One Generation to Another
The Orwells Bombed Out
Extract from ‘As I Please’, 32: The Flying Bomb
Extract from ‘London Letter’, 24 July 1944: Highly Unpopular Subjects
Extract from ‘As I Please’, 37: The Colour Bar
Review: Marie Paneth, Branch Street
Extract from ‘As I Please’, 40: The Warsaw Uprising
Extract from ‘As I Please’, 42: A Paris Taxi-Driver
‘London Letter’, October 1944(?): I Have Tried to Tell the Truth: errors and mistakes
Extract from ‘As I Please’, 49: On the Rudeness of Shopkeepers
Extract from ‘As I Please’, 50: The V2
Review: L.A.G. Strong, Authorship
Extracts from ‘As I Please’, 57: Huns and Other Such Names; A V-1 Explosion; The Three Super-states of the Future
‘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
‘The Sporting Spirit’
Review: ‘Freedom and Happiness’ [Yevgeny Zamyatin, We]
‘The Cost of Radio Programmes’
‘Books v. Cigarettes’
Review: Robert Tressall, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
Extracts from ‘London Letter’: early May 1946(?): Scarcity and Despair; The Literary Front – and Birth of the Third Programme
‘The Cost of Letters’
Broadcast: ‘The Written Word’: The first sustained critical assessment of Orwell’s journalism
‘As I Please’, 61: Polish Immigration; On Hanging
‘Riding Down from Bangor’
Extract from ‘As I Please’, 62: Intelligence and Popularity of Newspapers
Extract from ‘As I Please’, 63: What is Dominant: a Desire for Power or for Wealth?
‘As I Please’, 64: Trilby and Anti-Semitism; Authors’ Decline; Four-letter Words
Extract from ‘As I Please’, 65: Expenditure on Alcohol, Tobacco and Books; Soviet and US positions at United Nations
‘As I Please’, 66: Overindulging at Christmas
Extracts from ‘As I Please’, 66: The Gap Between Function and Reward on a Luxury Liner; Persecution of Writers in USSR
Extracts from ‘As I Please’, 72: The Fate of Burmese Minorities; H.G. Wells on Printing Errors
Extracts from ‘As I Please’, 73: Poles in Scotland; Scottish Nationalism
‘As I Please’, 75B: Handwriting and Creative Writing
Extract from ‘As I Please’, 77: Rationalised Spelling and Imperial Measure
Extracts from ‘As I Please’, 79: 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; tr. Erik de Mauny
Review: T.S. Eliot, Notes Towards the Definition of Culture
‘Evelyn Waugh’, unfinished essay
Last of Orwell’s Statements on 1984
Orwell’s Death
Appendix I
Appendix II: Estimates of Orwell’s Earnings, 1922–45
Selective Chronology
A Short List of Further Reading
Acknowledgements
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Copyright Page
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