George Orwell (pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair, the influential English author and critic) published two volumes of his essays during his life, Inside the Whale and Other Essays in 1940, and Critical Essays in 1946. Since his death, many collections of essays have appeared, most comprehesively the four volume Collected Essays, Letters and Journalism edited by his last wife, Sonia Orwell, which was published in 1968, and the last eleven volumes of the twenty volume The Complete Works of George Orwell, edited by Peter Davidson, which appeared in 1998.

List of Essays

• A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray 1946 [1]
• A Hanging 1931 [2]
• A Nice Cup of Tea
• AntiSemitism In Britain , see Anti-Semitism
• Arthur Koestler
• , see Salvador Dalí
• Books vs. Cigarettes 1946 [3]
• Bookshop Memories
• Boys' Weeklies 1940 [4]
• Charles Dickens 1939 [5], see Charles Dickens
• Charles Reade
• Confessions of a Book Reviewer 1946 [6]
• Decline of the English Murder 1946 [7]
• Down The Mine
• Freedom of the Park
• Future of a Ruined Germany
• Good Bad Books 1945 [8]
• How The Poor Die 1946 [9]
• In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse , see P.G. Wodehouse
• Inside The Whale 1940 [10]
• James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution
• Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool 1947 [11], see King Lear, Leo Tolstoy
• Looking Back On The Spanish War , see Spanish Civil War
• Mark Twain -- The Licensed Jester , see Mark Twain
• Marrakech
• Nonsense Poetry 1945 [12]
• North And South
• Notes on Nationalism , see nationalism
• A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray 1946 [13]
• Pleasure Spots
• Poetry and the Microphone
• Politics and the English Language 1946 [14]
• 1946 [15]
• Raffles and Miss Blandish
• Reflections on Gandhi [16], see Mahatma Gandhi
• Revenge is Sour
• Riding Down from Bangor 1946 [17]
• Rudyard Kipling , see Rudyard Kipling
• Second Thoughts on James Burnham 1946 [18]
• Shooting an Elephant 1936 [19]
• Some Thoughts on the Common Toad 1946 [20]
• Spilling The Spanish Beans
• Such, Such Were The Joys , see public school, Eton College
• The Art of Donald McGill , see Donald McGill
• The Prevention of Literature 1946 [21]
• The Spike
• The Sporting Spirit 1945 [22]
• W B Yeats (essay) , see W. B. Yeats.
• Wells, Hitler And The World State , see Adolf Hitler
• Why I Write 1946 [23]
• Writers and the Leviathan
• You and the Atomic Bomb , see Atom bomb

External Links

• Most referenced collections Bibliography breaking down contents of most frequently cited collections, with links to online contents.