Yeats” Chapter 27 - “Poetry and the Microphone” Chapter 28 - “In Defence of English Cooking” Chapter 29 - “Benefits of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dalí” Chapter 30 - “Raffles and Miss Blandish” Chapter 31 - “Arthur Kessler” Chapter 32 - “Antisemitism in Britain” Chapter 33 - “In Defence of P. With a risk of the update making this review irrelevant, here it is: Chapter 1 - Introduction Essay Chapter 2 - “Why I Write” Chapter 3 - “The Spike” Chapter 4 - “A Hanging” Chapter 5 - “Shooting an Elephant” Chapter 6 - “Bookshop Memories” Chapter 7 - 'Marrakech' Chapter 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 - 'Charles Dickens' Chapter 14 - “Boys’ Weeklies” Chapter 15, 16, 17 - “Inside the Whale - a review of Henry Miller’s ‘Tropic of Cancer’” Chapter 18 - “My Country - Right or Left” Chapter 19, 20, 21 - “The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius” Chapter 22 - “Wells, Hitler, and the World State” Chapter 23 - “The Art of Donald McGill” Chapter 24 - “Rudyard Kipling” Chapter 25 - “Looking back at the Spanish war” Chapter 26 - “W. If the audible/publisher could fix this, it would make this much better audiobook, making it easier to revisit some of the essays later on. I made a list of the chapters and corresponding essays. When it comes to narration, Alex Hyde-White does an awesome job, I can easily imagine it’s Orwell himself speaking. But the recording is worth the investment of time and money, and some his writing most definitely changed some of my views (Charles Dickens, review of Tropic of Cancer, his writing on the English language in particular). Definitely not disappointed, even though some of the essays are definitely not life-changing. Oftentimes it was one of his essays that were mentioned, so I picked this book up.

I only read 'Animal Farm' & '1984' prior to reading this, but I kept hearing mentions of Orwell as a visionary. perhaps you’re curious about Orwell’s essays - a great choice as well. If you’re looking for something that will make you think - this is great. Great Content Would benefit from chapter names

Writings of george orwell