George Orwell
The Orwell Reader, Fiction, Essays, and Reportage

Contents:

Prologue in Burma:

1. Shooting an Elephant, 1936 (Shooting an Elephant, 1950)
2. A Hanging, 1931 (Shooting an Elephant, 1950)
3. From Burmese Days, 1934

The Thirties:

1. From Down and Out in Paris and London, 1933
2. How the Poor Die, 1946
3. From A Clergyman's Daughter, 1935
4. From Keep the Aspidistra Flying, 1936
5. From The Road to Wigan Pier, 1937
6. From Homage to Catalonia, 1938
7. From Coming up for Air, 1939

World War II and After:

1. From The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius, 1941
   • England Your England, 1941 (Such, Such Were the Joys, 1953)
2. Rudyard Kipling, 1942 (Dickens, Dali and Others, 1946)
3. Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels, 1946 (Shooting an Elephant, 1950)
4. Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool, 1946 (Shooting an Elephant, 1950)
5. In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse, 1945 (Dickens, Dali and Others, 1946)
6. Reflections on Gandhi, 1949 (Shooting an Elephant, 1950)
7. Second Thoughts on James Burnham, 1946 (Shooting an Elephant, 1950)
8. Politics and the English Language, 1946 (Shooting an Elephant, 1950)
9. The Prevention of Literature, 1946 (Shooting an Elephant, 1950)
10. 'I Write As I Please', 1946 (Shooting an Elephant, 1950)
    • Decline of the English Murder, 1946
    • Some Thoughts on the Common Toad, 1946
    • A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray, 1946 (Shooting an Elephant, 1950)
11. Why I Write, 1946
12. From Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949
13. Such, Such Were the Joys, 1952 (Such, Such Were the Joys, 1953)