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Transcripts of Broadcasts

Those essays which Orwell broadcast on the BBC are noted in the essay section. In addition, there are several compilations of Orwell's wartime radio work.

 Orwell, the War Broadcasts. London: Duckworth: British Broadcasting Corp., 1985.
* This was later published in the U. S. with the title Orwell, the Lost Writings.

 Orwell, the War Commentaries. London: Duckworth: British Broadcasting Corp., 1985.
* This was later published in the U.S. with the same title.

 

Essay Collections Published Prior to Death

Critical Essays. London: Secker and Warburg, 1946.
* American edition -- Dickens, Dali & Others; Studies in Popular Culture. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946.
* Contains the following essays: Charles Dickens; Boys' Weeklies; Wells, Hitler and the World State; The Art of Donald McGill; Rudyard Kipling; W.B. Yeats; Benefit of Clergy; Arthur Koestler; Raffles and Miss Blandish; In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse

 Inside the Whale, and Other Essays. London: V. Gollancz ltd., 1940.
* Contains the following essays: Inside the Whale; Charles Dickens; Boys' Weeklies

 

Essay Collections Published Posthumously

Collected Essays. London: Secker & Warburg, 1961.
* Contains the following essays: Shooting an Elephant; A Hanging; How the Poor Die; Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool; Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels; Politics and the English Language; The Prevention of Literature; Second Thoughts on James Burnham; Charles Dickens; Boys' Weeklies; Wells, Hitler and the World State; The Art of Donald McGill; W.B. Yeats; Benefit of Clergy; Arthur Koestler; Raffles and Miss Blandish; In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse; Why I Write; Writers and Leviathan; Notes on Nationalism; Anti-Semitism in Britain; Poetry and the Microphone; Inside the Whale; Marrakech; Looking Back on the Spanish War

 A Collection of Essays. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1954.
* Contains the following essays: Such, Such Were the Joys; Charles Dickens; The Art of Donald McGill; Rudyard Kipling; Raffles and Miss Blandish; Shooting an Elephant; Politics and the English Language; Reflections on Gandhi; Marrakech; Looking Back on the Spanish War; Inside the Whale; England Your England; Boys' Weeklies; Why I Write

 Decline of the English Murder, and Other Essays. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1965.
* Contains the following essays: Decline of the English Murder; A Hanging; Benefit of Clergy; How the Poor Die; Rudyard Kipling; Raffles and Miss Blandish; Charles Dickens, The Art of Donald McGill; Notes on Nationalism; Why I Write

 England, Your England, and Other Essays. London: Secker & Warburg, 1953.
*Contains the following essays: Why I Write; Writers and Leviathan; North and South (from The Road to Wigan Pier); Notes on Nationalism; Anti-Semitism in Britain; Poetry and the Microphone; Inside the Whale; Marrakech; Looking Back on the Spanish War; Down the Mine (from The Road to Wigan Pier); England Your England

 The Penguin Essays of George Orwell. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1984.
* Contains forty-one pieces, from 1931 to 1949, arranged in chronological order.

 Selected Essays. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1957.
* Reprinted in 1962 with title Inside the Whale, but not the same as Orwell's1940 essay collection by the same name.

 Shooting an Elephant, and Other Essays. London: Secker and Warburg, 1950.
* Contains the following essays: Shooting an Elephant; A Hanging; How the Poor Die; Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool; Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels; Politics and the English Language; Reflections on Gandhi; The Prevention of Literature; Second Thoughts on James Burnham; Confessions of a Book Reviewer; Books vs. Cigarettes; Good Bad Books; Nonsense Poetry; Riding Down from Bangor; The Sporting Spirit; Decline of the English Murder; Some Thoughts on the Common Toad; A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray

 Such, Such Were the Joys. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1953.
* Contains the following essays: Why I Write; Such, Such Were the Joys; Writers and Leviathan; Notes on Nationalism; Anti-Semitism in Britain; Poetry and the Microphone; Marrakech; Looking Back on the Spanish War; Inside the Whale; England Your England

 

Letter Collections Published After Death

George Orwell: Ten "Animal Farm" Letters to his Agent, Leonard Moore. Bloomington, Ind.: Private Press of Fredric Brewer, 1984.

 "Some Letters of George Orwell to Cyril Connolly, Richard Rees, Stephen Spender, T. R. Fyvel, and Others." Encounter. January 1962.

 

Mixed-Genre Collections Published After Death

The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968.
* The key word here is collected. This collection is nowhere near complete, but it is the most complete collection available of Orwell's shorter work. Included in the four volumes are essays / articles, book reviews, poetry, letters, and extracts from Orwell's diaries and notebooks. The volumes are titled as follows:
Volume I: An Age Like This, 1920-1940
Volume II: My Country Right or Left, 1940-1943
Volume III: As I Please, 1943-1945
Volume IV: In Front of Your Nose, 1945-1950

 The Orwell Reader; Fiction, Essays, and Reportage. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1956.
* Contains the following essays: Shooting an Elephant; A Hanging; How the Poor Die; England Your England; Rudyard Kipling; Politics vs. Literature: an Examination of "Gulliver's Travels"; Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool; In Defense of P. G. Wodehouse; Reflections on Gandhi; Second Thoughts on James Burnham; Politics and the English Language; The Prevention of Literature; Decline of the English Murder; Some Thoughts on the Common Toad; A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray; Why I Write; Such, Such Were the Joys
* Also contains excerpts from the following works: Burmese Days; Down and Out in Paris and London; A Clergyman's Daughter; Keep the Aspidistra Flying; The Road to Wigan Pier; Homage to Catalonia; Coming Up for Air; Nineteen Eighty-Four

 

Poetry

"As One Non-Combatant to Another." Tribune. 18 June 1943. CEJL

 "Awake! Young Men of England." Henley and South Oxfordshire Standard. 2 October 1914.

 "A Dressed Man and a Naked Man." Adelphi. October 1933. CEJL

 "A Happy Vicar." Adelphi. December 1936.

 "Kitchener." Henley and South Oxfordshire Standard. 21 July 1916.

 "On a Ruined Farm Near the His Master's Voice Gramophone Factory." Adelphi. April 1934. CEJL

 "Sometimes in the Middle Autumn Days." Adelphi. March 1933. CEJL

 "Summer-like." Adelphi. May 1933.

 "St. Andrew's Day, 1935." Adelphi. November 1935.

 

Letters to the Editor / Editorials

Entries are published letters / editorials only. Titled entries are alphabetized by title, and untitled entries are alphabetized by periodical name. Entries noted "with others" were also signed by others than Orwell. Some entries are included in the CEJL.

 "Against Invasion." Time and Tide. 22 June 1940.

 "The Booster." New English Weekly. 11 November 1937.

 "Ends and Means." New English Weekly. 26 May 1938.

 Forward. (with others) 16 March 1946. CEJL

 Horizon. December 1947.

 Life. 25 July 1949.

 New English Weekly. 26 May 1938. CEJL

 News Chronicle. 3 March 1949. CEJL

 "Philip Sansom." Tribune. (with others) 18 January 1946.

 Polemic. May 1946. CEJL

 Spectator. 21 March 1941.

 Time and Tide. 22 June 1940. CEJL

 Times. 11 February 1933. CEJL

 Times Literary Supplement. 14 May 1938.

 Times Literary Supplement. 28 May 1938.

 Tribune. 31 December 1943.

 Tribune. 4 February 1944.

 Tribune. 10 March 1944.

 Tribune. 24 March 1944.

 Tribune. 28 April 1944.

 Tribune. 19 May 1944.

 Tribune. 26 May 1944.

 Tribune. 23 June 1944.

 Tribune. (with others) 4 May 1945.

 Tribune. 27 July 1945.

 Tribune. 23 November 1945.

 Tribune. 15 March 1946.

 Tribune. 13 December 1946.

 Tribune. 17 January 1947. CEJL

 Tribune. 31 January 1947.

 Tribune. 7 February 1947.

 Tribune. (with others) 7 February 1947.

 Tribune. (with others) 17 September 1948.

 "'Trotskyist' Publications." Time and Tide. 5 February 1938.

 "We, the Undersigned." Controversy. (with others) October 1938.

 

Works Edited

British Pamphleteers. Vol 1. (co-edited with Reginald Reynolds) London: Wingate, 1948.

 Talking to India. London: Allen and Unwin, 1943.

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