"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.<br/><br/>Included in this collection:<br/>- The Spike (1931)<br/>- A Hanging (1931)<br/>- Bookshop Memories (1936)<br/>- Shooting an Elephant (1936)<br/>- Down the Mine (1937)<br/>- North and South (1937)<br/>- Spilling the Spanish Beans (1937)<br/>- Marrakech (1939)<br/>- Boys' Weeklies and Frank Richards's Reply (1940)<br/>- Charles Dickens (1940)<br/>- Charles Reade (1940)<br/>- Inside the Whale (1940)<br/>- The Art of Donald McGill (1941)<br/>- The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius (1941)<br/>- Wells, Hitler and the World State (1941)<br/>- Looking Back on the Spanish War (1942)<br/>- Rudyard Kipling (1942)<br/>- Mark Twain—The Licensed Jester (1943)<br/>- Poetry and the Microphone (1943)<br/>- W B Yeats (1943)<br/>- Arthur Koestler (1944)<br/>- Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali (1944)<br/>- Raffles and Miss Blandish (1944)<br/>- Antisemitism in Britain (1945)<br/>- Freedom of the Park (1945)<br/>- Future of a Ruined Germany (1945)<br/>- Good Bad Books (1945)<br/>- In Defence Of P. G. Wodehouse (1945)<br/>- Nonsense Poetry (1945)<br/>- Notes on Nationalism (1945)<br/>- Revenge is Sour (1945)<br/>- The Sporting Spirit (1945)<br/>- You and the Atomic Bomb (1945)<br/>- A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray (1946)<br/>- A Nice Cup of Tea (1946)<br/>- Books vs. Cigarettes (1946)<br/>- Confessions of a Book Reviewer (1946)<br/>- Decline of the English Murder (1946)<br/>- How the Poor Die (1946)<br/>- James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution (1946)<br/>- Pleasure Spots (1946)<br/>- Politics and the English Language (1946)<br/>- Politics vs. Literature: an Examination of Gulliver's Travels (1946)<br/>- Riding Down from Bangor (1946)<br/>- Some Thoughts on the Common Toad (1946)<br/>- The Prevention of Literature (1946)<br/>- Why I Write (1946)<br/>- Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool (1947)<br/>- Such, Such were the Joys (1947)<br/>- Writers and Leviathan (1948)<br/>- Reflections on Gandhi (1949)