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George Orwell. Fifty Essays (George Orwell) (Literary Thoughts Edition)
Fifty Essays
Literary Thoughts Edition presents. Fifty Essays, by George Orwell
THE SPIKE (1931)
A HANGING (1931)
BOOKSHOP MEMORIES (1936)
SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT (1936)
DOWN THE MINE (1937) (FROM "THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER")
NORTH AND SOUTH (FROM "THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER") (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)
Part I – England Your England
Part II – Shopkeepers at War
PART III – THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION
WELLS, HITLER AND THE WORLD STATE (1941)
LOOKING BACK ON THE SPANISH WAR (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
NOTES ON NATIONALISM (1945)
REVENGE IS SOUR (1945)
THE SPORTING SPIRIT
YOU AND THE ATOMIC BOMB (1945)
A GOOD WORD FOR THE VICAR OF BRAY
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)
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by George Orwell
What talk there was ran on the Tramp Major of this spike. He was a devil, everyone agreed, a tartar, a tyrant, a bawling, blasphemous, uncharitable dog. You couldn't call your soul your own when he was about, and many a tramp had he kicked out in the middle of the night for giving a back answer. When You, came to be searched, he fair held you upside down and shook you. If you were caught with tobacco there was bell to. Pay, and if you went in with money (which is against the law) God help you.
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In a quarter of an hour there were only fifteen minutes! But every one of those minutes seemed inordinately long to Bunter. They seemed to crawl by like tired snails.
Looking at the clock in Classroom No. 10 the fat Owl could hardly believe that only fifteen minutes had passed. It seemed more like fifteen hours, if not fifteen days!
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