Fifty Essays. George Orwell

Аннотация:

"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)