This outstanding collection brings together Orwell's longer, major essays and a fine selection of shorter pieces that includes My Country Right or Left', Decline of the English Murder', 'Shooting an Elephant' and A Hanging'.
With great originality and wit Orwell unfolds his views on subjects ranging from the moral enormity of Jonathan Swift's strange genius and a revaluation of Charles Dickens to the nature of Socialism, a comic yet profound discussion of naughty sea-side picture postcards and a spirited defence of English cooking. Displaying an almost unrivalled mastery of English plain prose style, Orwell's essays challenge, move and entertain.
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