The Comprehensive Orwell Reader Author: George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950)) Formats: TXT,PDF,LIT,RTF,MOBI,EPUB In addition to his well-known works 1984 and Animal Farm, George Orwell was a prolific author of both fiction and non-fiction works, and wrote numerous essays, columns and poetry on various topics ranging from politics, law, travel and other topics. His essays especially show a remarkably agile and insightful mind, and it is a great shame that he died so young before being able to share more of his wisdom and insights with the rest of us. Table of Contents: ------------------ Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) Burmese Days (1934) A Clergyman's Daughter (1935) Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936) The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) Homage to Catalonia (1938) Coming Up for Air (1939) Essay: Why Socialists Don't Believe in Fun (1943) Animal Farm (1945) Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) 50 Essays (various) Short Poetry Collection (1950, posthumous) Contents of 50 Essays: ---------------------- The Spike (1931) A Hanging (1931) Bookshop Memories (1936) Shooting an Elephant (1936) Down the Mine (from "The Road to Wigan Pier") (1937) North and South (from "The Road to Wigan Pier") (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) 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 (Second Thoughts on Burnham) (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 (1952) - Posthumous Writers and Leviathan (1948) Reflections on Gandhi (1949) The file sources are from various formats, mostly textual (non-PDF), converted to other formats with default output settings using Calibre 0.6.33. More Information: http://www.george-orwell.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell The best books are those that tell you what you know already. -- George Orwell