Contents:
- Such, Such Were the Joys, 1947
- Charles Dickens, 1939
- The Art of Donald McGill, 1941
- Rudyard Kipling, 1942
- Raffles and Miss Blandish, 1944
- Shooting an Elephant, 1936
- Politics and the English Language, 1946
- Reflections on Gandhi, 1949
- Marrakech, 1939
- Looking Back on the Spanish War, 1943
- Inside the Whale, 1940
- England Your England, 1941
- Boys' Weeklies, 1940
- Why I Write, 1946