"Fifty Essays" is a collection of 50 essays by George Orwell. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. Included in this collection:- The Spike (1931)- A Hanging (1931)- Bookshop Memories (1936)- Shooting an Elephant (1936)- Down the Mine (1937)- North and South (1937)- Spilling the Spanish Beans (1937)- Marrakech (1939)- Boys' Weeklies and Frank Richards's Reply (1940)- Charles Dickens (1940)- Charles Reade (1940)- Inside the Whale (1940)- The Art of Donald McGill (1941)- The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius (1941)- Wells, Hitler and the World State (1941)- Looking Back on the Spanish War (1942)- Rudyard Kipling (1942)- Mark Twain-The Licensed Jester (1943)- Poetry and the Microphone (1943)- W B Yeats (1943)- Arthur Koestler (1944)- Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali (1944)- Raffles and Miss Blandish (1944)- Antisemitism in Britain (1945)- Freedom of the Park (1945)- Future of a Ruined Germany (1945)- Good Bad Books (1945)- In Defence Of P. G. Wodehouse (1945)- Nonsense Poetry (1945)- Notes on Nationalism (1945)- Revenge is Sour (1945)- The Sporting Spirit (1945)- You and the Atomic Bomb (1945)- A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray (1946)- A Nice Cup of Tea (1946)- Books vs. Cigarettes (1946)- Confessions of a Book Reviewer (1946)- Decline of the English Murder (1946)- How the Poor Die (1946)- James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution (1946)- Pleasure Spots (1946)- Politics and the English Language (1946)- Politics vs. Literature: an Examination of Gulliver's Travels (1946)- Riding Down from Bangor (1946)- Some Thoughts on the Common Toad (1946)- The Prevention of Literature (1946)- Why I Write (1946)- Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool (1947)- Such, Such were the Joys (1947)- Writers and Leviathan (1948)- Reflections on Gandhi (1949)
