George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1946Essays, journalism and essays by the brilliant, indispensable George Orwell from 1943 to 1945. Even many decades after his death, the more we read of Orwell, the more clearly we can think about our world and ourselves. During the Second World War, George Orwell was rejected for service and so became the literary editor, reviewer, and frequent columnist of the left-wing weekly, Tribune. "What I have most wanted to do," Orwell said, "is to make political writing into an art." And there is ample proof here that he achieve his ambition. Included in this volume are reviews of works by authors as varied as C. S. Lewis and Arthur Koestler, the newspaper column, "As I Please," and the brilliant essay, "A Nice Cup of Tea." Also included are letters to T. S. Eliot, among others, while trying to convince publishers to take a chance on a book called Animal Farm. This third volume of the Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters by George Orwell will be enjoyed by anyone who believes that words can go a long way toward changing the world. |
Contents
The English People | 1 |
In Defence of English Cooking | 38 |
A Nice Cup of Tea | 40 |
Review of The Pub and the People by Mass Observation | 43 |
The Moon under Water | 44 |
Review of Cricket Country by Edmund Blunden | 47 |
1943 | 51 |
Letter to Philip Rahv | 53 |
As I Please | 196 |
As I Please | 199 |
Letter to John Middleton Murry | 202 |
As I Please | 204 |
Letter to John Middleton Murry | 206 |
As I Please | 207 |
As I Please | 210 |
Raffles and Miss Blandish | 212 |
As I Please | 54 |
As I Please | 58 |
Review of Collected Poems by W H Davies | 61 |
As I Please | 63 |
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1944 | 69 |
As I Please | 71 |
As I Please | 73 |
London Letter to Partisan Review | 74 |
As I Please | 82 |
As I Please | 83 |
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A Hundred Up | 93 |
Letter to Gleb Struve | 95 |
As I Please | 96 |
Review of The Edge of the Abyss by Alfred Noyes | 99 |
As I Please | 101 |
Letter to Roy Fuller | 104 |
As I Please | 105 |
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Review of The Road to Serfdom by F A Hayek etc | 117 |
As I Please | 119 |
London Letter to Partisan Review | 123 |
As I Please | 128 |
As I Please | 131 |
Propaganda and Demotic Speech | 135 |
Letter to Philip Rahv | 141 |
As I Please | 143 |
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Letter to H J Willmett | 148 |
As I Please | 150 |
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Some Notes on Salvador Dali | 156 |
As I Please | 165 |
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Letter to T S Eliot | 176 |
As I Please | 178 |
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Letter to John Middleton Murry | 184 |
Letter to Rayner Heppenstall | 185 |
Letter to Leonard Moore | 186 |
As I Please | 187 |
Letter to John Middleton Murry | 190 |
London Letter to Partisan Review | 191 |
As I Please | 224 |
As I Please | 228 |
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Arthur Koestler | 234 |
Tobias Smollett | 244 |
As I Please | 248 |
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Orwell Agate | 255 |
As I Please | 260 |
As I Please | 263 |
As I Please | 266 |
Review of The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith | 268 |
As I Please | 273 |
As I Please | 276 |
As I Please | 279 |
Funny But Not Vulgar | 283 |
As I Please | 288 |
Letter to Frank Barber | 291 |
London Letter to Partisan Review | 293 |
Oysters and Brown Stout | 299 |
As I Please | 302 |
1945 | 307 |
A New Year Message | 309 |
As I Please | 313 |
As I Please | 316 |
Review of The Unquiet Grave by Palinurus | 318 |
As I Please | 320 |
As I Please | 323 |
As I Please | 326 |
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Antisemitism in Britain | 332 |
In Defence of P G Wodehouse | 341 |
As I Please | 355 |
Letter to Leonard Moore | 358 |
Letter to Anthony Powell | 359 |
Letter to Lydia Jackson | 360 |
Notes on Nationalism | 361 |
London Letter to Partisan Review | 380 |
Letter to F J Warburg | 386 |
Review of The Nigger of the Narcissus etc by Joseph Conrad | 387 |
Unpublished Letter to the Editor of Tribune | 389 |
Letter to Leonard Moore | 392 |
London Letter to Partisan Review | 393 |
Letter to Herbert Read | 400 |
Letter to Frank Barber | 402 |
Books by or containing contributions by George Orwell | 407 |
Chronology | 409 |
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