A selection of essays, articles, sketches, reviews and scripts written by Orwell.
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)
- Beggars in London (Le Progrès Civique, 1929)
- Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali (written 1944)
- Bookshop Memories (Fortnightly, 1936)
- Books vs. Cigarettes (Tribune, 1946)
- Boys’ Weeklies (Inside the Whale, 1940)
- British Cookery (unpublished, 1946)
- Can Socialists be Happy? (as John Freeman, Tribune, 1943)
- Charles Dickens (Inside the Whale, 1940)
- Common Lodging Houses (New Statesman, 3 September 1932)
- Confessions of a Book Reviewer (Tribune, 1946)
- Decline of the English Murder (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)
- Hop-picking (New Statesman and Nation, 1931)
- How a Nation is Exploited – The British Empire in Burma (Le Progrès Civique, 1929)
- How the Poor Die (Now, 1946)
- In Defence of English Cooking (Evening Standard, 1945)
- In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse (Windmill, 1945)
- In Front of Your Nose (Tribune, 1946)
- Inside the Whale (Inside the Whale, 1940)
- Just Junk – But Who Could Resist It? (Evening Standard, 1946)
- Marrakech (New Writing, 1939)
- My Country Right or Left (Folios of New Writing, 1940)
- Nonsense Poetry (Tribune, 1945)
- Notes on Nationalism (Polemic, October 1945)
- On the monarchy (Partisan Review, Spring 1944 – at Harry’s Place)
- 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)
- Raffles and Miss Blandish (Horizon, 1944)
- Reflections on Gandhi (Partisan Review, 1949)
- Riding Down From Bangor (Tribune, 1946)
- Rudyard Kipling (New English Weekly, 1936)
- 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 Freedom of the Press: proposed preface to Animal Farm (1945, first published TLS, 1972)
- The Lion and the Unicorn (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)
- W. B. Yeats (Horizon, 1943)
- Why I Write (Gangrel, 1946)
- You and the Atom Bomb (Tribune, 1945)
Reviews
- 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)
Other
- 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)