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Chronology

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1931

The Spike

A Hanging

1936

Shooting an Elephant

Bookshop Memories

1937

Down the Mine

North and South

Spilling the Spanish Beans

1939

Charles Dickens

Marrakech

1940

Inside the Whale

Boys' Weeklies

Charles Reade

1942

The Lion and the Unicorn

The Art of Donald McGill

Rudyard Kipling

A Modern de Quincey by Captain H. R. Robinson. Book review by Orwell.

Looking Back on the Spanish War

1943

Poetry and the Microphone

Mark Twain: The Licensed Jester

1944

Raffles and Miss Blandish

Benefit Of Clergy: Some Notes On Salvador Dali

1945

Anti-Semitism in Britain

In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse

Notes on Nationalism

You and the Atom Bomb

Good Bad Books

Revenge is Sour

Freedom of the Park

1946

A Nice Cup of Tea

The Prevention of Literature

Arthur Koestler

Decline of the English Murder

Books v. Cigarettes

The Moon Under Water. Orwell writes about his favourite pub.

Politics and the English Language

James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution

Confessions of a Book Reviewer

Why I Write

Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s Travels

How the Poor Die

1947

Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool

Such, Such Were the Joys

1948

Writers and Leviathan

1949

Reflections on Gandhi