Table of Contents

       Novels

       Burmese Days

       A Clergyman’s Daughter

       Keep the Aspidistra Flying

       Coming Up for Air

       Animal Farm

       1984

       Poetry

       Awake! Young Men of England

       Kitchener

       Our Hearts Are Married, But We Are Too Young

       The Pagan

       Poem from Burma (aka Suggested by a Tooth Paste Advertisement)

       The Lesser Evil

       Romance

       Summer-like for an Instant

       The Italian Soldier Shook My Hand

       Sometimes in the Middle Autumn Days

       A Dressed Man and a Naked Man

       On a Ruined Farm Near the His Master's Voice Gramophone Factory

       Ironic Poem about Prostitution

       A Happy Vicar I Might Have Been (aka A Little Poem)

       Reflections on War and Society

       Spilling the Spanish Beans

       Not Counting Niggers

       Prophecies of Fascism

       Wells, Hitler and the World State

       Looking Back on the Spanish War

       Who Are the War Criminals?

       Future of a Ruined Germany

       Revenge is Sour

       You and the Atomic Bomb

       Notes on Nationalism

       Catastrophic Gradualism

       Freedom of the Park

       How the Poor Die

       In Front of Your Nose

       Thoughts on England

       Democracy in the British Army

       The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius

       Antisemitism in Britain

       In Defence of English Cooking

       Decline of the English Murder

       Politics and the English Language

       Views on Literature, Art & People

       In Defence of the Novel

       Notes on the Way

       Charles Dickens

       Charles Reade

       Inside the Whale

       Literature and Totalitarianism

       The Art of Donald McGill

       Rudyard Kipling

       W. B. Yeats

       Mark Twain—the Licensed Jester