"Fifty Essays" is a collection of 50 essays by George Orwell. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic.
Included in this collection:
- The Spike (1931)
- A Hanging (1931)
- Bookshop Memories (1936)
- Shooting an Elephant (1936)
- Down the Mine (1937)
- North and South (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)
- Future of a Ruined Germany (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 (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 (1947)
- Writers and Leviathan (1948)
- Reflections on Gandhi (1949)
