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The Orwell Foundation is delighted to make available a selection of essays, articles, sketches, reviews and scripts written by Orwell.
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Sketches For Burmese Days
- 1. John Flory – My Epitaph
- 2. Extract, Preliminary to Autobiography
- 3. Extract, the Autobiography of John Flory
- 4. An Incident in Rangoon
- 5. Extract, A Rebuke to the Author, John Flory
Essays and articles
- A Day in the Life of a Tramp ( Le Progrès Civique , 1929)
- A Hanging ( The Adelphi , 1931)
- A Nice Cup of Tea ( Evening Standard , 1946)
- Antisemitism in Britain ( Contemporary Jewish Record , 1945)
- Arthur Koestler (written 1944)
- British Cookery (unpublished, 1946)
- Can Socialists be Happy? (as John Freeman, Tribune , 1943)
- Common Lodging Houses ( New Statesman , 3 September 1932)
- Confessions of a Book Reviewer ( Tribune , 1946)
- “For what am I fighting?” ( New Statesman , 4 January 1941)
- Freedom and Happiness – Review of We by Yevgeny Zamyatin ( Tribune , 1946)
- Freedom of the Park ( Tribune , 1945)
- Future of a Ruined Germany ( The Observer , 1945)
- Good Bad Books ( Tribune , 1945)
- In Defence of English Cooking ( Evening Standard , 1945)
- In Front of Your Nose ( Tribune , 1946)
- Just Junk – But Who Could Resist It? ( Evening Standard , 1946)
- My Country Right or Left ( Folios of New Writing , 1940)
- Nonsense Poetry ( Tribune , 1945)
- Notes on Nationalism ( Polemic , October 1945)
- Pleasure Spots ( Tribune , January 1946)
- Poetry and the microphone ( The New Saxon Pamphlet , 1945)
- Politics and the English Language ( Horizon , 1946)
- Politics vs. Literature: An examination of Gulliver’s Travels ( Polemic , 1946)
- Reflections on Gandhi ( Partisan Review , 1949)
- Rudyard Kipling ( Horizon , 1942)
- Second Thoughts on James Burnham ( Polemic , 1946)
- Shooting an Elephant ( New Writing , 1936)
- Some Thoughts on the Common Toad ( Tribune , 1946)
- Spilling the Spanish Beans ( New English Weekly , 29 July and 2 September 1937)
- The Art of Donald McGill ( Horizon , 1941)
- The Moon Under Water ( Evening Standard , 1946)
- The Prevention of Literature ( Polemic , 1946)
- The Proletarian Writer (BBC Home Service and The Listener , 1940)
- The Spike ( Adelphi , 1931)
- The Sporting Spirit ( Tribune , 1945)
- Why I Write ( Gangrel , 1946)
- You and the Atom Bomb ( Tribune , 1945)
Reviews by Orwell
- Anonymous Review of Burmese Interlude by C. V. Warren ( The Listener , 1938)
- Anonymous Review of Trials in Burma by Maurice Collis ( The Listener , 1938)
- Review of The Pub and the People by Mass-Observation ( The Listener , 1943)
Letters and other material
- BBC Archive: George Orwell
- Free will (a one act drama, written 1920)
- George Orwell to Steven Runciman (August 1920)
- George Orwell to Victor Gollancz (9 May 1937)
- George Orwell to Frederic Warburg (22 October 1948, Letters of Note)
- ‘Three parties that mattered’: extract from Homage to Catalonia (1938)
- Voice – a magazine programme , episode 6 (BBC Indian Service, 1942)
- Your Questions Answered: Wigan Pier (BBC Overseas Service)
- The Freedom of the Press: proposed preface to Animal Farm (1945, first published 1972)
- Preface to the Ukrainian edition of Animal Farm (March 1947)
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