Publisher: © 1950 Secker & Warburg, GB, London.
The first time published: on October 5, 1950.
Print-run: 7,000 copies.
OCR: Mikhail V. Chernyshev; E-Mail: chernyshev@laban.rs
Contents:
- Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays, 1950
- • Shooting an Elephant, 1936
- • A Hanging, 1931
- • How the Poor Die, 1946
- • Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool, 1947
- • Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels, 1946
- • Politics and the English Language, 1946
- • Reflections on Gandhi, 1949
- • The Prevention of Literature, 1946
- • Second Thoughts on James Burnham, 1946
- • Confessions of a Book Reviewer, 1946
- • Books vs. Cigarettes, 1946
- • Good Bad Books, 1945
- • Nonsense Poetry, 1945
- • Riding Down from Bangor, 1946
- • The Sporting Spirit, 1945
- • Decline of the English Murder, 1946
- • Some Thoughts on the Common Toad, 1946
- • A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray, 1946