Orwell is best remembered for his political commentary as a left-wing anti-totalitarian. As he explained in the essay "Why I Write" (1946), "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it."[2] To that end Orwell used his fiction as well as his journalism to defend his political convictions. He first achieved widespread acclaim with his fictional novella Animal Farm and cemented his place in history with the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four shortly before his death. While fiction accounts for a small fraction of his total output, these two novels are his best-selling works, having sold almost fifty million copies in sixty-two languages by 2007—more than any other pair of books by a twentieth-century author.[3]
Orwell wrote non-fiction—including book reviews, editorials, and investigative journalism—for a variety of British periodicals. In his lifetime he published hundreds of articles including several regular columns in British newsweeklies related to literary and cultural criticism as well as his explicitly political writing. In addition he wrote book-length investigations of poverty in Britain in the form of Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier and one of the first retrospectives on the Spanish Civil War in Homage to Catalonia. Between 1941 and 1946 he also wrote fifteen "London Letters" for the American political and literary quarterly Partisan Review, the first of which appeared in the issue dated March–April 1941.
Only two compilations of Orwell's body of work were published in his lifetime, but since his death over a dozen collected editions have appeared. Two attempts have been made at comprehensive collections: The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters in four volumes (1968, 1970), co-edited by Ian Angus and Orwell's widow Sonia Brownell; and The Complete Works of George Orwell, in 20 volumes, edited by Peter Davison, which began publication in the mid-1980s. The latter includes an addendum, The Lost Orwell (2007).
The impact of Orwell's large corpus is manifested in additions to the Western canon such as Nineteen Eighty-Four, its subjection to continued public notice and scholarly analyses, and the changes to vernacular English it has effected—notably the adoption of "Orwellian" as a description of totalitarian societies.
In addition to his novels Orwell also wrote three non-fiction books. Down and Out in Paris and London records his experiences tramping and teaching in those two cities. The Road to Wigan Pier is initially a study of poverty in the North of England, but ends with an extended autobiographical essay describing some of Orwell's experiences with poverty. Homage to Catalonia recounts his experiences as a volunteer fighting fascism with the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification in anarchist Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War.
Orwell wrote hundreds of essays, book reviews and editorials. His insights into linguistics, literature and politics—in particular anti-fascism, anti-communism, and democratic socialism—continued to be influential decades after his death.[4] Over a dozen of these were published in collections during his life—Inside the Whale and Other Essays by his original publisher Victor Gollancz Ltd in 1940, and Critical Essays by Secker and Warburg in 1946. The latter press also published the collections Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays in 1950 (republished by Penguin in 2003) and England Your England and Other Essays in 1953.
Since his death many collections of essays have appeared, with the first attempt at a comprehensive collection being the four-volume Collected Essays, Letters and Journalism of George Orwell edited by Ian Angus and Sonia Brownell, which was published by Secker and Warburg and Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich in 1968–1970. Peter Davison of De Montfort University spent 17 years researching and correcting the entirety of Orwell's works[5] with Angus and Sheila Davison, and devoted the last eleven volumes of the twenty-volume series The Complete Works of George Orwell to essays, letters, and journal entries. The entire series was initially printed by Secker and Warburg in 1986, finished by Random House in 1998, and revised between 2000 and 2002.
Orwell was not widely known for writing verse, but he did publish several poems that have survived, including many written during his school days:[6]
Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus edited a four volume collection of Orwell's writings, The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, divided into four volumes:
Davison later compiled a handful of writings—including letters, an obituary for H. G. Wells, and his reconstruction of Orwell's list—into Lost Orwell: Being a Supplement to The Complete Works of George Orwell, which was published by Timewell Press in 2006, with a paperback published on 25 September 2007. In 2011, Davison's selection of letters and journal entries were published as George Orwell: A Life in Letters and Diaries by Harvill Secker.[10] A selection by Davison from Orwell's journalism and other writings were published by Harvill Secker in 2014 under the title Seeing Things as They Are.
After his first publication—the poem "Awake! Young Men of England", published in the Henley and South Oxfordshire Standard in 1914—Orwell continued to write for his school publications The Election Times and College Days/The Colleger.[6] He also experimented with writing for several years before he could support himself as an author. These pieces include first-hand journalism (e.g. 1931's "The Spike"), articles (e.g. 1931's "Hop-Picking"), and even a one-act play—Free Will. (He would also adapt four plays as radio dramas.)
His production of fiction was not as prolific—while living in Paris he wrote a few unpublished stories and two novels,[12] but burned the manuscripts (Orwell routinely destroyed his manuscripts and with the exception of a partial copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four, all are lost. Davison would publish this as Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Facsimile of the Extant Manuscript by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in May 1984, {{ISBN|0-15-166034-4}}.) In addition, Orwell produced several pieces while working at the BBC as a correspondent. Some were written by him and others were merely recited for radio broadcast. For years, these went uncollected until the anthologies Orwell: The War Broadcasts (Marboro Books, June 1985 and in the United States, as Orwell: The Lost Writings by Arbor House, September 1985) and Orwell: The War Commentaries (Gerald Duckworth & Company Ltd., London, 1 January 1985) were edited by W. J. West. Orwell was responsible for producing The Indian Section of BBC Eastern Service and his program notes from 1 February and 7 December 1942, have survived (they are reproduced in War Broadcasts). He was also asked to provide an essay about British cooking along with recipes for The British Council. Orwell kept a diary which has been published by his widow—Sonia Brownell—and academic Peter Davison, in addition to his private correspondence.
Full list of Orwell works| group=note|name=Titles|Usually it is fairly certain that the titles of essays are Orwell's. Reviews, articles and letters to editors, however, were often given titles or headings by editors. Orwell mainly submitted his typescripts listing only the name of the author and title of the work being reviewed. Titles listed here are those found in George Orwell: A Bibliography by Fenwick, who gives them as originally printed, whereas Davison in The Complete Works seeks to cut out all titles that cannot with certainty be attributed to Orwell. For more information see the editorial note in The Complete Works, Vol. 10. | Date | Collected | Notes |
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| About It And About|"About It and About"}} | format=dmy|1939|8|12}} | CW XI | Review of Foreign Correspondent: Twelve British Journalists and In the Margins of History by L. B. Namier and Europe Going, Going, Gone! by Count Ferdinand von Czernin, published in Time and Tide[13] |
| Adventure Of The Lost Meat-card|"The Adventure of the Lost Meat-card"}} | format=dmy|1918|6|3}} | CW X | The Election Times No. 4, pp. 43–46.[14]{{refn>group=note|name=ElectionTimes}} |
| After Twelve|"After Twelve"}} | format=dmy|1920|4|1}} | CW X | College Days No. 4, p. 104, possibly by Orwell[15]{{refn>group=note|name=ErrataCollegeDays|For three entries ("After Twelve", "Ode to Field Days", and "A Summer Idyll") Fenwick erroneously gives the year of publication for issue number four of College Days as 1919 instead of 1920.}}{{refn|group=note|name=CollegeDays}} |
| All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays | format=dmy|2008|10|13}} | – | Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in New York City, edited by George Packer. Companion volume to Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays |
| All Change Is Here|"All Change Is Here"}} | format=dmy|1944|5|7}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Allies Facing Food Crisis In Germany|"Allies Facing Food Crisis in Germany"}} | format=dmy|1945|4|15}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| American Critic|"An American Critic"}} | format=dmy|1942|5|10}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Animal Farm | format=dmy|1945|8|17}} | CN, CW VIII, OP | Published by Secker and Warburg in London on and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in New York City on 26 August 1946. The original printing is entitled Animal Farm: A Fairy Story. |
| Anti-Semitism In Britain|"Anti-Semitism in Britain"}} | format=dmy|1945|4}} | SSWtJ, EYE, ColE, CEJL III, EL | Published in Contemporary Jewish Record |
| Are Books Too Dear?|"Are Books Too Dear?"}} | format=dmy|1944|6|1}} | EL | Published in Manchester Evening News |
| A.R.D – After Rooms – Janney|"A.R.D – After rooms – JANNEY"}} | format=dmy|1920|4|1}} | CW X | College Days No. 4, p. 103. Written together with Denys King-Farlow.[15][17]{{refn>group=note|name=CollegeDays}} |
| Art Of Donald Mcgill|"The Art of Donald McGill"}} | format=dmy|1941|9}} | AAIP, CEJL II, CoE, ColE, CrE, DotEM, EL, OD | Published in Horizon |
| Arthur Koestler|"Arthur Koestler"}} | format=dmy|1944|9|11}} | CrE, ColE, CEJL III, EL | Unpublished typescript |
| As I Please 01|"As I Please" #1}} | format=dmy|1943|12|3}} | CEJL III, EL, FUF | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 02|"As I Please" #2}} | format=dmy|1943|12|10}} | EL, FUF | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 03|"As I Please" #3}} | format=dmy|1943|12|17}} | CEJL III, EL, FUF | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 04|"As I Please" #4}} | format=dmy|1943|12|24}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 05|"As I Please" #5}} | format=dmy|1943|12|31}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 06|"As I Please" #6}} | format=dmy|1944|1|7}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 07|"As I Please" #7}} | format=dmy|1944|1|14}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 08|"As I Please" #8}} | format=dmy|1944|1|21}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 09|"As I Please" #9}} | format=dmy|1944|1|28}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 10|"As I Please" #10}} | format=dmy|1944|2|4}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 11|"As I Please" #11}} | format=dmy|1944|2|11}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 12|"As I Please" #12}} | format=dmy|1944|2|18}} | EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 13|"As I Please" #13}} | format=dmy|1944|2|25}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 14|"As I Please" #14}} | format=dmy|1944|3|3}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 15|"As I Please" #15}} | format=dmy|1944|3|10}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 16|"As I Please" #16}} | format=dmy|1944|3|17}} | CEJL III, EL, FUF | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 17|"As I Please" #17}} | format=dmy|1944|3|24}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 18|"As I Please" #18}} | format=dmy|1944|3|31}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 19|"As I Please" #19}} | format=dmy|1944|4|7}} | EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 20|"As I Please" #20}} | format=dmy|1944|4|14}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 21|"As I Please" #21}} | format=dmy|1944|4|21}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 22|"As I Please" #22}} | format=dmy|1944|4|28}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 23|"As I Please" #23}} | format=dmy|1944|5|5}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 24|"As I Please" #24}} | format=dmy|1944|5|12}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 25|"As I Please" #25}} | format=dmy|1944|5|19}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 26|"As I Please" #26}} | format=dmy|1944|5|26}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 27|"As I Please" #27}} | format=dmy|1944|6|2}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 28|"As I Please" #28}} | format=dmy|1944|6|9}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 29|"As I Please" #29}} | format=dmy|1944|6|16}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 30|"As I Please" #30}} | format=dmy|1944|6|23}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 31|"As I Please" #31}} | format=dmy|1944|6|30}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 32|"As I Please" #32}} | format=dmy|1944|7|7}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 33|"As I Please" #33}} | format=dmy|1944|7|14}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 34|"As I Please" #34}} | format=dmy|1944|7|21}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 35|"As I Please" #35}} | format=dmy|1944|7|28}} | CEJL III, EL, {{nowrap>OD (excerpt)}} | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 36|"As I Please" #36}} | format=dmy|1944|8|4}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 37|"As I Please" #37}} | format=dmy|1944|8|11}} | CEJL III, EL, {{nowrap>OE (excerpt)}} | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 38|"As I Please" #38}} | format=dmy|1944|8|18}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 39|"As I Please" #39}} | format=dmy|1944|8|25}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 40|"As I Please" #40}} | format=dmy|1944|9|1}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 41|"As I Please" #41}} | format=dmy|1944|9|8}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 42|"As I Please" #42}} | format=dmy|1944|9|15}} | CEJL III, EL, {{nowrap>OS (excerpt)}} | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 43|"As I Please" #43}} | format=dmy|1944|10|6}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 44|"As I Please" #44}} | format=dmy|1944|10|13}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 45|"As I Please" #45}} | format=dmy|1944|10|20}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 46|"As I Please" #46}} | format=dmy|1944|10|27}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 47|"As I Please" #47}} | format=dmy|1944|11|3}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 48|"As I Please" #48}} | format=dmy|1944|11|17}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 49|"As I Please" #49}} | format=dmy|1944|11|24}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 50|"As I Please" #50}} | format=dmy|1944|12|1}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 51|"As I Please" #51}} | format=dmy|1944|12|8}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 52|"As I Please" #52}} | format=dmy|1944|12|29}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 53|"As I Please" #53}} | format=dmy|1945|1|5}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 54|"As I Please" #54}} | format=dmy|1945|1|12}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 55|"As I Please" #55}} | format=dmy|1945|1|19}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 56|"As I Please" #56}} | format=dmy|1945|1|26}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 57|"As I Please" #57}} | format=dmy|1945|2|2}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 58|"As I Please" #58}} | format=dmy|1945|2|9}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 59|"As I Please" #59}} | format=dmy|1945|2|16}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 60|"As I Please" #60}} | format=dmy|1946|11|8}} | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 61|"As I Please" #61}} | format=dmy|1946|11|15}} | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 62|"As I Please" #62}} | format=dmy|1946|11|22}} | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 63|"As I Please" #63}} | format=dmy|1946|11|29}} | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 64|"As I Please" #64}} | format=dmy|1946|12|6}} | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 65|"As I Please" #65}} | format=dmy|1946|12|13}} | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 66|"As I Please" #66}} | format=dmy|1946|12|20}} | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 67|"As I Please" #67}} | format=dmy|1946|12|27}} | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 68|"As I Please" #68}} | format=dmy|1947|1|3}} | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 69|"As I Please" #69}} | format=dmy|1947|1|17}} | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 70|"As I Please" #70}} | format=dmy|1947|1|24}} | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 71|"As I Please" #71}} | format=dmy|1947|1|31}} | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 72|"As I Please" #72}} | format=dmy|1947|2|7}} | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 73|"As I Please" #73}} | format=dmy|1947|2|14}} | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 74|"As I Please" #74}} | format=dmy|1947|2|21}} | EL | Published in Manchester Evening News for Tribune |
| As I Please 75A|"As I Please" #75A}} | format=dmy|1947|2|27}} | EL | Published in Daily Herald for Tribune |
| As I Please 75B|"As I Please" #75B}} | format=dmy|1947|2|28}} | EL | Published in Manchester Evening News for Tribune |
| As I Please 76|"As I Please" #76}} | format=dmy|1947|3|7}} | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 77|"As I Please" #77}} | format=dmy|1947|3|14}} | CEJL IV, EL, {{nowrap>OE (excerpt)}} | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 78|"As I Please" #78}} | format=dmy|1947|3|21}} | EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 79|"As I Please" #79}} | format=dmy|1947|3|28}} | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| As I Please 80|"As I Please" #80}} | format=dmy|1947|4|4}} | EL | Published in Tribune |
| As One Non-Combatant To Another|"As One Non-Combatant to Another"}} | format=dmy|1943|6|18}} | CEJL II | Poem written in response to Alex Comfort's Letter to an American Visitor (published under the pseudonym "Obadiah Hornbrooke" in Tribune 9 June 1943), published in Tribune |
| At School And On Holiday|"At School and on Holiday"}} | format=dmy|1940|12|7}} | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| Authentic Socialism|"Authentic Socialism"}} | format=dmy|1938|6|16}} | CEJL I, CW XI | Review of The Freedom of the Streets by Jack Common, published in the New English Weekly Vol. XIII, No. 10 (16 June 1938) p. 192.[18][19] |
| Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War|unpublished response to Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War}} | format=dmy|1937|8|3}} | CW XI, EL, OS | Unpublished response, written sometime between 3 and 6 August 1937, to a questionnaire sent out by Nancy Cunard and the Left Review for the pamphlet Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War.[20] |
| Autobiographical Note|"Autobiographical Note"}} | format=dmy|1940|4|17}} | CEJL II | Written for Stanley Kunitz and Howard Haycraft's Twentieth Century Authors, published by W. H. Wilson & Co. in 1942 |
| Awake! Young Men Of England|"Awake! Young Men of England"}} | format=dmy|1914|10|2}} | CW X | Poem published in the Henley and South Oxfordshire Standard Vol. XXV, No. 1455, p. 8, signed "Eric Blair"[14] |
| Back To The Land|"Back to the Land"}} | format=dmy|1944|9|3}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Back To The Twenties|"Back to the Twenties"}} | format=dmy|1937|10|21}} | CW XI | Review of the September 1937 issue of the magazine The Booster published in the New English Weekly Vol. XII, No. 2 (21 October 1937) pp. 30–31.[22][23] |
| Background Of French Morocco|"Background of French Morocco"}} | format=dmy|1942|11|20}} | – | Published in Tribune |
| Background To Travel|"Background to Travel"}} | format=dmy|1937|9|25}} | CEJL I, CW XI | Review of Journey to Turkistan by Eric Teichman, published in Time and Tide Vol. XVIII, No. 39 (25 September 1937) p. 1269[24][25] |
| Bad Climates Are Best|"Bad Climates Are Best"}} | format=dmy|1946|2|2}} | EL | Published in Evening Standard |
| Ballade|"{{lang|fr|Ballade}}"}} | format=dmy|1929|6}} | – | Written before the summer of 1929, this poem has not survived |
| Banish This Uniform|"Banish This Uniform"}} | format=dmy|1945|12|22}} | EL | Published in Evening Standard |
| Bare Christmas For The Children|"Bare Christmas for the Children"}} | format=dmy|1945|12|1}} | EL | Published in Evening Standard |
| Bastard Death by Michael Fraenkel and Fast One by Paul Cain | format=dmy|1936|4|23}} | CEJL I | Book review published in New English Weekly |
| Battle Ground|"Battle Ground"}} | format=dmy|1945|12|16}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Bavarian Peasants Ignore The War|"Bavarian Peasants Ignore the War"}} | format=dmy|1945|4|22}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Bayonet In War|"The Bayonet in War"}} | format=dmy|1941|3|21}} | – | Published in The Spectator |
| Bbc Internal Memorandum|BBC Internal Memorandum}} | format=dmy|1942|10|15}} | CEJL II | Memo written by Orwell for his boss at BBC Eastern Service outlining his demands for working on-air |
| Beggars in London|"Beggars in London"}} | format=dmy|1929|01|12}} | – | {{lang>fr|Progrès Civique}} |
| Behind The Ranges|"Behind the Ranges"}} | format=dmy|1944|6|11}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Benefit Of Clergy: Some Notes On Salvador Dali|"Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali"}} | format=dmy|1944}} | CrE, ColE, DotEM, CEJL III, EL, AAIP, STCM | Book review of Salvador Dalí's Life intended for The Saturday Book volume four. |
| Bernard Shaw|"Bernard Shaw"}} | format=dmy|1943|1|22}} | WB | Broadcast by the BBC |
| Best Novels Of 1949: Some Personal Choices|"The Best Novels of 1949: Some Personal Choices"}} | format=dmy|1950|1|1}} | LO, OY | A list of authors' favourite books of 1949 published in The Observer |
| Black Spring by Henry Miller, A Passage to India by E. M. Forster, Death of a Hero by Richard Aldington, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, A Hind Let Loose by Charles Edward Montague, and A Safety Match by Ian Hay | format=dmy|1936|9|24}} | CEJL I | Book review published in New English Weekly |
| Book Racket|"The Book Racket"}} | format=dmy|1939|9}} | CW XI | Review of Best-Sellers by George Stevens, Stanley Unwin and Frank Swinnerton, published in The Adelphi[13] |
| Books And The People: Money And Virtue|"Books and the People: Money and Virtue"}} | format=dmy|1944|11|10}} | CEJL III, CW XVI | Review of The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith, published in Tribune No. 410, pp. 15–16[27] |
| Books V. Cigarettes|"Books v. Cigarettes"}} | format=dmy|1946|2|8}} | SaE, CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| Bookshop Memories|"Bookshop Memories"}} | format=dmy|1936|11}} | CEJL I, EL, FUF | Published in Fortnightly Review |
| Booster|"Booster"}} | format=dmy|1937|11|11}} | CW XI | Letter to the editor in reply to a letter from The Booster (4 November 1937), published in the New English Weekly Vol. XII, No. 5 (11 November 1937) p. 100.[22][23] |
| Boys' Weeklies|"Boys' Weeklies"}} | format=dmy|1940|3|11}} | AAIP, CEJL I, CoE, CrE, ColE, ItW, OD, SE | Published in Horizon in abridged form and revised for Inside the Whale and Other Essays |
| Britain's Struggle For Survival: The Labour Government After Three Years|"Britain's Struggle for Survival: The Labour Government After Three Years"}} | format=dmy|1948|10}} | – | Published in Commentary |
| British Cookery|"British Cookery"}} | format=dmy|1946}} | – | Article with recipes commissioned by the British Council; due to rationing, it was not published |
| British Crisis|"The British Crisis"}} | format=dmy|1942|6}} | – | Published in Partisan Review, June/July 1942. |
| British General Election|"The British General Election"}} | format=dmy|1945|11}} | – | Published in Commentary |
| Britain's Left-Wing Press|"Britain's Left-Wing Press"}} | format=dmy|1948|6}} | EL | Published in The Progressive |
| British Pamphleteers Volume 1: From the 16th Century the 18th Century | format=dmy|1948|4}} | – | Published by Allan Wingate in Spring 1948, co-edited by Orwell and Reginald Reynolds with an introduction by Orwell. |
| British Rations And The Submarine War|"British Rations and the Submarine War"}} | format=dmy|1942|1|22}} | WB | Broadcast by the BBC |
| {{sort>British Way In Warfare|The British Way in Warfare}} by Basil Liddell Hart | format=dmy|1942|11|21}} | CEJL II | Book review published in New Statesman and Nation |
| {{sort>Brothers Karamazov|The Brothers Karamazov}} and Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett | format=dmy|1945|10|7}} | EL, OY | Published in The Observer |
| Burma|"Burma"}} | format=dmy|1928|12}} | OP | {{lang>fr|Progrès Civique}}, in instalments between December 1928 and May 1929 |
| Burma|"Burma"}} | format=dmy|1943|4|22}} | – | Published in Tribune |
| Burma Roads|"Burma Roads"}} | format=dmy|1944|10|1}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Burmese Days | format=dmy|1935|10|25}} | CN, CW II, {{nowrap>OR (excerpts)}} | Published by HarperCollins in New York City on 25 October 1935 and by Victor Gollancz, Ltd. in London on 24 June 1936. This is the only Orwell book to be initially published outside of the United Kingdom. |
| Burmese Interlude by C. V. Warren | format=dmy|1938|1|12}} | CW XI | Burmese Interlude by C. V. Warren published unsigned in The Listener (12 January 1938) p. 101.[30][23]{{refn>group=note|name=ListenerAnon|The ten unsigned reviews in The Listener are attributed by Davison to Orwell from the journal's records.[30]}} |
| Burnham's View of the Contemporary World Struggle|"Burnham's View of the Contemporary World Struggle"}} | format=dmy|1947|3|29}} | CEJL IV, EL | Published in The New Leader |
| Burnt Norton, The Dry Salvages, and East Coker by T. S. Eliot | format=dmy|1942|10}} | CEJL II, EL, AAIP | Poetry reviews published in Poetry London, October/November 1942 |
| But Are We Really Ruder? No|"But Are We Really Ruder? No"}} | format=dmy|1946|1|26}} | EL | Published as a Saturday Essay in Evening Standard |
| By-Words|"By-Words"}} | format=dmy|1940|11|16}} | – | Published in New Statesman and Nation |
| Byron and the Need of Fatality by Charles du Bos, translated from the French by Ethel Colburn Mayne | format=dmy|1932|9}} | CEJL I | Book review published in Adelphi, signed "Eric Blair" |
| Caesarean Section In Spain|"Caesarean Section in Spain"}} | format=dmy|1939|3}} | CW XI, OS | Article published in A Review of Adult Education and the Journal of the Workers' Educational Association Vol. 31, pp. 145–147[33] |
| {{sort>Calf Of Paper|The Calf of Paper}} by Sholem Asch and Midnight by Julien Green | format=dmy|1936|11|12}} | CEJL I | Book review published in New English Weekly |
| Caliban Shrieks by Jack Hilton | format=dmy|1935|5}} | CEJL I, EL, OD | Book review published in The Adelphi, first writing credited to "George Orwell" |
| Can Socialists Be Happy?|"Can Socialists Be Happy?"}} | format=dmy|1943|12|24}} | EL, AAIP | Tribune under the authorship of "John Freeman" (possibly in reference to British politician of the same name) and later attributed to Orwell by Davison.{{refn>group=note|Orwell's authorship of this article is disputed. In a review published in Times Higher Education, Scott Bradfield writes: There are also times when Davison seems in too big a hurry to add a hitherto neglected item to the canon, such as his inclusion of an essay titled: "Can socialists be happy?" which was originally published under the name John Freeman. "Freeman" is the sort of nom de plume Orwell might have relished, and the essay does refer to many of Orwell's favourite subjects. But it is also just about the worst piece of writing in this entire edition, studded with the sort of wooden, thesis-driven paragraphs you might expect from a class in freshman composition. As Davison provides no compelling evidence that this essay must have been written by Orwell, the world could probably live without it.[34] While Peter Davison—the editor of the Complete Works—writes: George Orwell's payment book for 20 December 1943, records the sum of pounds 5.50 for a special article of 2,000 words for Tribune. This has never been traced in Tribune under Orwell's name but it now seems certain that an essay, entitled 'Can Socialists Be Happy?' by 'John Freeman' is what is referred to. The name Freeman would have appealed to Orwell as a pseudonym, and the article has many social, political and literary links with Orwell, such as the relation of Lenin to Dickens (the fact that Lenin read A Christmas Carol on his deathbed also appears in the second paragraph of Orwell's 1939 essay, 'Charles Dickens'). A 'real' John Freeman, later editor of the New Statesman, has confirmed that he did not write the article. The reason why Orwell chose to write as 'John Freeman' he never used this pseudonym again is not clear. It may be that Tribune did not want its literary editor to be seen to be associated with its political pages. Possibly it was a device that allowed Orwell to be paid a special fee. Or it may be that he simply wished to see how far Tribune would let him go with his opinions. In any case, the article appeared in the Christmas issue and provoked much debate in the issues that followed.[35] }} |
| Case For The Open Fire|"The Case for the Open Fire"}} | format=dmy|1945|12|8}} | EL, FUF | Published in Evening Standard |
| Carlyle|"Carlyle"}} | format=dmy|1931|3}} | CEJL I | Review of The Two Carlyles by Osbert Burdett, published in The Adelphi, signed "Eric Blair" |
| Catastrophic Gradualism|"Catastrophic Gradualism"}} | format=dmy|1943|11}} | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Common Wealth Review |
|
| Catholic Confronts Communism|"A Catholic Confronts Communism"}} | format=dmy|1939|1|27}} | CEJL I, CW XI, EL, OP | Review of Communism and Man by F. J. Sheed published in Peace News[36] |
| Censorship in England|"Censorship in England"}} | format=dmy|1928|10|6}} | – | Published in French as "La censure en angleterre" in Monde |
| Charles Dickens|"Charles Dickens"}} | format=dmy|1940|3|11}} | ItW, CrE, CoE, ColE, DotEM, CEJL I, EL, AAIP | First published in Inside the Whale and Other Essays |
| Charles The Great|"Charles the Great"}} | format=dmy|1945|9|2}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Children Who Cannot Be Billeted|"The Children Who Cannot Be Billeted"}} | format=dmy|1944|8|13}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Chinese Miracles|"Chinese Miracles"}} | format=dmy|1944|8|6}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Chosen People|"Chosen People"}} | format=dmy|1944|1|30}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Christian Reformers|"The Christian Reformers"}} | format=dmy|1946|2|7}} | EL | Published as part one of a series (with "What Is Socialism?", "The Intellectual Revolt", and "Pacifism and Progress") in Manchester Evening News |
| Classics Reviewed: The Martyrdom of Man|"Classics Reviewed: The Martyrdom of Man"}} | format=dmy|1946|3|15}} | CEJL IV, EL | Book review of the book by William Winwood Reade published in Tribune |
| {{sort>Clergyman's Daughter|A Clergyman's Daughter}} | format=dmy|1935|3|11}} | CN, CW III, {{nowrap>OR (excerpts)}} | Published by Victor Gollancz, Ltd in London on 11 March 1935 and in New York City on 17 August 1936. |
| Clerical Party May Re-emerge In France: Educational Controversy|"Clerical Party May Re-emerge in France: Educational Controversy"}} | format=dmy|1945|3|11}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Clink|"Clink"}} | format=dmy|1932|8}} | CEJL I, EL, FUF, OD | Unpublished |
| {{sort>Coat Of Many Colours: Occasional Essays By Herbert Reade|A Coat of Many Colours: Occasional Essays by Herbert Reade}} by Herbert Taylor Reade | format=dmy|1945|12}} | CEJL IV | Published in Poetry Quarterly, Winter 1945 |
| Collected Essays | format=dmy|1961}} | – | Published by Secker and Warburg in London |
| {{sort>Collected Essays, Journalism And Letters Of George Orwell – Volume 1: An Age Like This 1920–1940|The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell – Volume 1: An Age Like This 1920–1940}} | format=dmy|1968}} | – | Published by Harcourt, Brace & World in New York City, later republished by Mariner Books in 1971, David R Godine in 2000, and Penguin UK in 2003 |
| {{sort>Collected Essays, Journalism And Letters Of George Orwell – Volume 2: My Country Right Or Left 1940–1943|The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell – Volume 2: My Country Right or Left 1940–1943}} | format=dmy|1968}} | – | Published by Harcourt, Brace & World in New York City, later republished by Mariner Books in 1971, David R Godine in 2000, and Penguin UK in 2003 |
| {{sort>Collected Essays, Journalism And Letters Of George Orwell – Volume 3: As I Please, 1943–1945|The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell – Volume 3: As I Please, 1943–1945}} | format=dmy|1968}} | – | Published by Harcourt, Brace & World in New York City, later republished by Mariner Books in 1971, David R Godine in 2000, and Penguin UK in 2003 |
| {{sort>Collected Essays, Journalism And Letters Of George Orwell – Volume 4: In Front Of Your Nose, 1945–1950|The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell – Volume 4: In Front of Your Nose, 1945–1950}} | format=dmy|1968}} | – | Published by Harcourt, Brace & World in New York City, later republished by Mariner Books in 1971, David R Godine in 2000, and Penguin UK in 2003 |
| Collected Poems of W. H. Davies by W. H. Davies | format=dmy|1943|12|19}} | CEJL III, EL, OY | Book review published in The Observer |
| {{sort>Collection Of Essays By George Orwell|A Collection of Essays by George Orwell}} | format=dmy|1954}} | – | Published by Doubleday and Company in Garden City in 1954 |
| Coming Up for Air | format=dmy|1939|6|12}} | CN, CW VI, {{nowrap>OR (excerpts)}} | Published by Victor Gollancz, Ltd in London on 12 June 1939[37] |
| Common Lodging Houses|"Common Lodging Houses"}} | format=dmy|1932|9|3}} | CEJL I, EL, OD | Published in The New Statesman and Nation, signed "Eric Blair" |
| {{sort>Complete Works Of George Orwell – Volume 10: A Kind Of Compulsion: 1903–1936|The Complete Works of George Orwell – Volume 10: A Kind of Compulsion: 1903–1936}} | format=dmy|1986}} | – | Published by Secker and Warburg in 1986, later reprinted in 1999; volumes one to nine are reprintings of Orwell's non-fiction books and novels |
| {{sort>Complete Works Of George Orwell – Volume 11: Facing Unpleasant Facts: 1937–1939|The Complete Works of George Orwell – Volume 11: Facing Unpleasant Facts: 1937–1939}} | format=dmy|1986}} | – | Published by Secker and Warburg in 1986, later reprinted in 1999; volumes one to nine are reprintings of Orwell's non-fiction books and novels |
| {{sort>Complete Works Of George Orwell – Volume 12: A Patriot After All: 1940–1941|The Complete Works of George Orwell – Volume 12: A Patriot After All: 1940–1941}} | format=dmy|1986}} | – | Published by Secker and Warburg in 1986, later reprinted in 1999; volumes one to nine are reprintings of Orwell's non-fiction books and novels |
| {{sort>Complete Works Of George Orwell – Volume 13: All Propaganda Is Lies: 1941–1942|The Complete Works of George Orwell – Volume 13: All Propaganda Is Lies: 1941–1942}} | format=dmy|1986}} | – | Published by Secker and Warburg in 1986, later reprinted in 1999; volumes one to nine are reprintings of Orwell's non-fiction books and novels |
| {{sort>Complete Works Of George Orwell – Volume 14: Keeping Our Little Corner Clean: 1942–1943|The Complete Works of George Orwell – Volume 14: Keeping Our Little Corner Clean: 1942–1943}} | format=dmy|1986}} | – | Published by Secker and Warburg in 1986, later reprinted in 1999; volumes one to nine are reprintings of Orwell's non-fiction books and novels |
| {{sort>Complete Works Of George Orwell – Volume 15: Two Wasted Years: 1943|The Complete Works of George Orwell – Volume 15: Two Wasted Years: 1943}} | format=dmy|1986}} | – | Published by Secker and Warburg in 1986, later reprinted in 1999; volumes one to nine are reprintings of Orwell's non-fiction books and novels |
| {{sort>Complete Works Of George Orwell – Volume 16: I Have Tried To Tell The Truth: 1943–1944|The Complete Works of George Orwell – Volume 16: I Have Tried to Tell the Truth: 1943–1944}} | format=dmy|1986}} | – | Published by Secker and Warburg in 1986, later reprinted in 1999; volumes one to nine are reprintings of Orwell's non-fiction books and novels |
| {{sort>Complete Works Of George Orwell – Volume 17: I Belong To The Left: 1945|The Complete Works of George Orwell – Volume 17: I Belong to the Left: 1945}} | format=dmy|1986}} | – | Published by Secker and Warburg in 1986, later reprinted in 1999; volumes one to nine are reprintings of Orwell's non-fiction books and novels |
| {{sort>Complete Works Of George Orwell – Volume 18: Smothered Under Journalism: 1946|The Complete Works of George Orwell – Volume 18: Smothered Under Journalism: 1946}} | format=dmy|1986}} | – | Published by Secker and Warburg in 1986, later reprinted in 1999; volumes one to nine are reprintings of Orwell's non-fiction books and novels |
| {{sort>Complete Works Of George Orwell – Volume 19: It Is What I Think: 1947–1948|The Complete Works of George Orwell – Volume 19: It Is What I Think: 1947–1948}} | format=dmy|1986}} | – | Published by Secker and Warburg in 1986, later reprinted in 1999; volumes one to nine are reprintings of Orwell's non-fiction books and novels |
| {{sort>Complete Works Of George Orwell – Volume 20: Our Job Is To Make Life Worth Living: 1949–1950|The Complete Works of George Orwell – Volume 20: Our Job Is to Make Life Worth Living: 1949–1950}} | format=dmy|1986}} | – | Published by Secker and Warburg in 1986, later reprinted in 1999; volumes one to nine are reprintings of Orwell's non-fiction books and novels |
| Concerning The Quartier Montparnasse|"Concerning the Quartier Montparnasse"}} | format=dmy|1929|6}} | – | fr|Ayant toujours trait au Quartier Montparnasse}}", which were written before the summer of 1929 and have not survived |
| Confessions Of A Book Reviewer|"Confessions of a Book Reviewer"}} | format=dmy|1946|5|3}} | SaE, CEJL IV, EL, AAIP | Published in Tribune |
| Conrad's Place And Rank In English Letters|"Conrad's Place and Rank in English Letters"}} | format=dmy|1949|4|10}} | CEJL IV | Published in Wiadomosci |
| Controversy: Agate: Orwell|"A Controversy: Agate: Orwell"}} | format=dmy|1944|12|21}} | CEJL III | Orwell's review of Noblesse Oblige—Another Letter to My Son by Osbert Sitwell was published in Manchester Evening News on 30 November 1944, with James Agate's response to Orwell published on 21 December 1944 and this response by Orwell appearing in the same issue. |
| Cost Of Letters|"The Cost of Letters"}} | format=dmy|1946|9}} | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Horizon, also entitled "Questionnaire: The Cost of Letters" |
| Cost Of Radio Programmes|"The Cost of Radio Programmes"}} | format=dmy|1946|2|1}} | – | Published in Tribune |
| Countryman's World|"Countryman's World"}} | format=dmy|1944|3|23}} | CW XVI, EL | Review of The Way of a Countryman by William Beach Thomas, published in The Manchester Evening News No. 23,354, p. 2[38] |
| Crainquebille by Anatole France | format=dmy|1943|8|11}} | WB | Adaptation of France's play as a radio drama by Orwell, broadcast by the BBC |
| Creating Order Out Of Cologne Chaos|"Creating Order out of Cologne Chaos"}} | format=dmy|1945|3|25}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Cricket Country by Edmund Blunden | format=dmy|1944|4|20}} | CEJL III, EL | Book review published in Manchester Evening News |
| Cricket Enthusiast|"The Cricket Enthusiast"}} | format=dmy|1920|7|9}} | CW X | College Days No. 5, p. 150[39][40]{{refn>group=note|name=CollegeDays}} |
| Critical Essays | format=dmy|1946|2|14}} | – | Published by Secker and Warburg in London and as Dickens, Dali and Others: Studies in Popular Culture by Reynal and Hitchcock in April 1946. |
| Culture And Democracy|"Culture and Democracy"}} | format=dmy|1942|5|15}} | – | Published in Victory or Vested Interest?, made up of "Fascism and Democracy" and "Patriots and Revolutionaries" |
| Culture And The Classes|"Culture and the Classes"}} | format=dmy|1948|11|28}} | CEJL IV, EL, OY | Book review of Notes Towards the Definition of Culture by T. S. Eliot published in The Observer |
| Books In General|"Books in General"}} | format=dmy|1940|8|17}} | CEJL II | Article on Charles Reade, published in New Statesman and Nation |
| Cycle Of Cathay|"Cycle of Cathay"}} | format=dmy|1945|11|11}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Danger Of Separate Occupation Zones|"Danger of Separate Occupation Zones"}} | format=dmy|1945|5|20}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| In The Darlan Country|"In the Darlan Country"}} | format=dmy|1942|11|29}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Day In The Life Of A Tramp|"A Day in the Life of a Tramp"}} | format=dmy|1929|1|5}} | OE | {{lang>fr|Progrès Civique}} |
| De Gaulle Intends To Keep Indo-China|"De Gaulle Intends to Keep Indo-China"}} | format=dmy|1945|3|18}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Dear Doktor Goebbels – Your British Friends Are Feeding Fine!|"Dear {{lang|de|Doktor Goebbels}} – Your British Friends Are Feeding Fine!"}} | format=dmy|1941|7|23}} | EL, FUF | Published in Daily Express |
| Decline Of The English Murder|"Decline of the English Murder"}} | format=dmy|1946|2|15}} | CEJL IV, DotEM, EL, OE, OR, SaE | Published in Tribune |
| Decline Of The English Murder And Other Essays|Decline of the English Murder and Other Essays}} | format=dmy|1965}} | – | Published by Penguin Group in London |
| Defence Of Freedom|"The Defence of Freedom"}} | format=dmy|1948|10|11}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Democracy In The British Army|"Democracy in the British Army"}} | format=dmy|1939|9}} | CEJL I, CW XI, EL, OD | Article published in The Left Forum[41] |
| {{sort>Democrat At The Supper Table|The Democrat at the Supper Table}} by Colm Brogan | format=dmy|1946|2|10}} | CEJL IV, OY | Book review published in The Observer |
| Democrat And Dictators|"Democrats and Dictators"}} | format=dmy|1940|2|17}} | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| Dear Friend: Allow Me For A Little While|"Dear Friend: Allow Me for a Little While"}} | 1922|format=hide}}{{nowrap|c. 1922–1927}} | CW X | [42][43]{{refn>group=note|name=BurmaDates|It is not possible to precisely date the material Orwell drafted during his time with the Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927.[44]}} |
| {{lang>de|Der Führer}} by Conred Heiden | format=dmy|1945|1|4}} | EL | Book review published in Manchester Evening News |
| Desert And Islands|"Desert and Islands"}} | format=dmy|1936|11|21}} | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| {{sort>Development Of William Butler Yeats|The Development of William Butler Yeats}} by V. K. Narayana Menon | format=dmy|1943|1}} | EL, CrE, ColE, CELJ II | Book review published in Horizon |
| Diaries | format=dmy|2011|5|10}} | – | Edited by Peter Davison, published in London by Harvill Secker |
| Do Our Colonies Pay?|"Do Our Colonies Pay?"}} | format=dmy|1946|3|8}} | – | Published in Tribune |
| Down and Out in Paris and London | format=dmy|1933|1|9}} | CW I, OD, {{nowrap>OR (excerpts)}} | Published by Victor Gollancz, Ltd in London on 9 January 1933 and in the United States on 30 June 1933. |
| Presenting the Future|"Presenting the Future"}} | format=dmy|1937|6|10}} | CW XI Reprint of a short section of chapter two of The Road to Wigan Pier in The News Chronicle, (10 June 1937) p. 6. Part four in a five-day series presenting the work of "young writers already famous among critics, less well-known among the public."[45][25] |
| Down Under|"Down Under"}} | format=dmy|1948|3|14}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Dressed Man And A Naked Man|"A Dressed Man and a Naked Man"}} | format=dmy|1933|10}} | CEJL I, OD | Poem published in The Adelphi, signed "Eric Blair" |
| Drums Under the Windows by Seán O'Casey | format=dmy|1945|10|28}} | CEJL IV, EL, OY | Book review published in The Observer |
| {{sort>Edge Of The Abyss|The Edge of the Abyss}} by Alfred Noyes | format=dmy|1944|2|27}} | EL, OY | Book review published in The Observer |
| Editorial | format=dmy|1946|5}} | CEJL IV | Published in Polemic number three |
| Edmund Blunden|"Edmund Blunden"}} | format=dmy|1943|1|8}} | WB | An introduction to a talk by Blunden broadcast over the BBC |
| Eight Years Of War: Spanish Memories|"The Eight Years of War: Spanish Memories"}} | format=dmy|1944|7|16}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| {{sort>Emperor's New Clothes|The Emperor's New Clothes}} by Hans Christian Andersen | format=dmy|1943|11|18}} | WB | Adaptation of Andersen's short story as a radio drama by Orwell, broadcast by the BBC |
| End Of Henry Miller|"The End of Henry Miller"}} | format=dmy|1942|12|4}} | – | Published in Tribune |
| Ends and Means|"Ends and Means"}} | format=dmy|1938|5|26}} | CEJL I, CW XI, OP | Letter to the editor in reply to A. Romney Green's letter on Aldous Huxley. Published in The New English Weekly Vol. XIII, No.7 (26 May 1938) p. 139.[47][19] |
| England With The Knobs Off|"England with the Knobs Off"}} | format=dmy|1940|7}} | – | Published in The Adelphi |
| England Your England|"England Your England"}} | format=dmy|1941|2|19}} | SSWtJ, EYE, CoE, OR, SE, FUF | First published in Socialism and the English Genius |
| England Your England And Other Essays|England Your England and Other Essays}} | format=dmy|1953}} | – | Published by Secker and Warburg in London |
| English Civil War|"The English Civil War"}} | format=dmy|1940|8|24}} | – | Published in New Statesman and Nation |
| English People|"The English People"}} | format=dmy|1944|3}} | CEJL III, EL, OE | Commissioned as a part of the series "Britain in Pictures" and written around spring of 1944, this essay was not published by HarperCollins as a pamphlet until 1947 due to paper rationing in World War II |
| English Poetry Since 1900|"English Poetry Since 1900"}} | format=dmy|1943|6|13}} | WB | Broadcast by the BBC |
| English Ways by Jack Hilton; with an Introduction by John Middleton Murry and Photographs by J. Dixon Scott | format=dmy|1940|7}} | EL, OD | Book review published in The Adelphi |
| English Writing In Total War|"English Writing in Total War"}} | format=dmy|1941|7|14}} | – | Published in The New Republic |
| Entre Chien Et Loup|"{{Lang|fr|Entre Chien et Loup}}"}} | format=dmy|1940|4|13}} | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| Escape Or Escapeism?|"Escape or Escapeism?"}} | format=dmy|1945|11|30}} | – | Published in Tribune |
| Espionage Trial In Spain Pressure From Outside|"Espionage Trial in Spain: 'Pressure from Outside'"}} | format=dmy|1938|8|5}} | CW XI, OS | Letter to the editor published in The Manchester Guardian (5 August 1938) p. 18. The same letter was also sent to The New Statesman and Nation and The Daily Herald who did not print it.[49][19] |
| Essays | format=dmy|2002|10|15}} | – | Published by Alfred A. Knopf in New York City and Toronto as a part of Everyman's Library, edited by John Carey |
| Esther Waters by George Moore, Our Mr Wrenn by Sinclair Lewis, Dr Serocold by Helen Ashton, The Owls' House by Crosbie Garstin, Hangman's House by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne, Odd Craft by W. W. Jacobs, Naval Occasions by Bartimeus, My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse, and Autobiography volumes one and two by Margot Asquith | format=dmy|1936|5|5}} | CEJL I | Book review of several titles published by Penguin Group, published in New English Weekly |
| Eton Masters' Strike|"Eton Masters' Strike"}} | format=dmy|1919|11|29}} | CW X | College Days No. 3, p. 90, possibly by Orwell[15]{{refn>group=note|name=CollegeDays}} |
| Evelyn Waugh|"Evelyn Waugh"}} | format=dmy|1949|4}} | CEJL IV, EL | Unpublished and unfinished essay written c. April 1949 |
| Eye-Witness In Barcelona|"Eye-Witness in Barcelona"}} | format=dmy|1937|8}} | CW XI, OS | Article published in Controversy: The Socialist Forum, Vol. I, No. 11 (August 1937) pp. 85–88.[25][53] |
| Eyes Left, Dress!|"Eyes Left, Dress!"}} | format=dmy|1938|2|17}} | CEJL I, CW XI, OP | Review of Workers' Front by Fenner Brockway, published in The New English Weekly Vol. XII, No. 19 (17 February 1938) p. 368.[54][25] |
| Excursions in Autobiography|"Excursions in Autobiography"}} | format=dmy|1937|11|6}} | CW XI | Review of Broken Water: An Autobiographical Excursion by James Hanley and I Wanted Wings by Beirne Lay, published in Time and Tide Vol. XVIII, No. 45 (6 November 1937) p. 1475.[56][23] |
| Experientia Docet|"Experientia Docet"}} | format=dmy|1937|8|28}} | CEJL I, CW XI | Review of The Men I Killed by F. P. Crozier, published in The New Statesman and Nation Vol. XIV (28 August 1937) p. 314.[58][25] |
| Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays | format=dmy|2008|10|13}} | – | Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in New York City, edited by George Packer. Companion volume to All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays |
| Faith Of Thomas Mann|"The Faith of Thomas Mann"}} | format=dmy|1943|9|10}} | – | Published in Tribune |
| Faith, Reason and Civilisation by Harold Laski | format=dmy|1944|3|13}} | EL | Rejected book review submitted to Manchester Evening News |
| Farthing Newspaper|"A Farthing Newspaper"}} | format=dmy|1928|12|29}} | CEJL I, EL, OD | Published in G. K.'s Weekly, signed "Eric A. Blair" |
| Fascism and Democracy|"Fascism and Democracy"}} | format=dmy|1941|3|3}} | – | Published in Betrayal of the Left by Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| {{sort>Fate Of The Middle Classes|The Fate of the Middle Classes}} by Alec Brown | format=dmy|1936|4|30}} | CW X, EL | The New English Weekly{{refn>group=note|name=FateoftheMiddleClasses|Orwell reviewed Alec Brown's The Fate of the Middle Classes on two separate occasions in the months following its 1936 publication, in April for The New English Weekly and in May for The Adelphi.[60]}} |
| {{sort>Fate Of The Middle Classes|The Fate of the Middle Classes}} by Alec Brown | format=dmy|1936|5|}} | CW X, OP | The Adelphi{{refn>group=note|name=FateoftheMiddleClasses}} |
| Fiction And Life|"Fiction and Life"}} | format=dmy|1940|11|9}} | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| Films|"Films"}} | format=dmy|1940|10}} | – | Published in Time and Tide from October 1940 through August 1941 |
| Five Travellers|"Five Travellers"}} | format=dmy|1936|9|12}} | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| For Ever Eton|"For Ever Eton"}} | format=dmy|1948|8|1}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Foreign Policies|"Foreign Policies"}} | format=dmy|1946|4|5}} | – | Published in Tribune |
| Foreword To End Of The Old School Tie|Forward to The End of the 'Old School Tie{{'}}}} | format=dmy|1941}} | OD | By T. C. Worsley, published by Secker and Warburg |
| {{sort>Fox|The Fox}} by Ignazio Silone | format=dmy|1943|9|9}} | WB | Adaptation of Silone's short story as a radio drama by Orwell, broadcast by the BBC |
| France's Interest In The War Dwindles|"France's Interest in the War Dwindles"}} | format=dmy|1945|5|6}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Franco Spain|"Franco Spain"}} | format=dmy|1940|12|21}} | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| Franz Borkenau On The Communist International|"Franz Borkenau on the Communist International"}} | format=dmy|1938|9|22}} | CEJL I, CW XI, OP | Review of The Communist International by Franz Borkenau, published in the New English Weekly Vol. XIII, No. 24 (22 September 1938) pp. 357–358.[61][19] |
| Freed Politicians Return To Paris|"Freed Politicians Return to Paris"}} | format=dmy|1945|5|13}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Freedom And Happiness|"Freedom and Happiness"}} | format=dmy|1946|1|4}} | CEJL IV | Published in Tribune, a review of Yevgeny Zamyatin's We |
| Free Will|"Free Will"}} | format=dmy|1918|6|3}} | CW X | The Election Times No. 4, pp. 25–27. Reprinted in College Days No. 5 (9 July 1920) p. 129, also unsigned.[14]{{refn>group=note|name=ElectionTimes}}{{refn|group=note|name=CollegeDays}} |
| Freedom Defence Committee|"Freedom Defence Committee"}} | format=dmy|1948|9|18}} | CEJL IV | Published in Socialist Leader |
| Freedom Of The Park|"Freedom of the Park"}} | format=dmy|1945|12|7}} | CEJL IV | Published in Tribune |
| Freedom Of The Press|"The Freedom of the Press"}} | format=dmy|1945|8|17}} | EL | An introduction to Animal Farm published in London and later in New York City on 26 August 1946 |
| French Farce|"French Farce"}} | format=dmy|1945|7|8}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Friendship And Love|"Friendship and love"}} | 1921|6|format=hide}}{{nowrap|Summer 1921}} | CW X | Orwell's last poem to Jacintha Buddicom[64] |
| From Tartary To Egypt|"From Tartary to Egypt"}} | format=dmy|1936|8|15}} | CW X | Review of News from Tartary by Peter Fleming, The Abyssinia I Knew by General Eric Virgin translated from the Swedish by Naomi Walford, and Canoe Errant on the Nile by Major R. Raven-Hart, published in Time and Tide |
| From The Notebooks Of George Orwell|"From the Notebooks of George Orwell"}} | format=dmy|1950|6}} | – | Published in World Review |
| Frontiers Of Art And Propaganda|"The Frontiers of Art and Propaganda"}} | format=dmy|1941|4|30}} | CEJL II, EL | Initially broadcast over BBC Overseas Service on 30 April 1941, printed in The Listener on 29 May 1941 |
| Funny, But Not Vulgar|"Funny, but Not Vulgar"}} | format=dmy|1944|12|1}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Leader Magazine, 28 July 1945 |
| Future Of A Ruined Germany|"Future of a Ruined Germany"}} | format=dmy|1945|4|8}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Gandhi In Mayfair|"Gandhi in Mayfair"}} | format=dmy|1943|9}} | CEJL II, EL | Book review of Beggar My Neighbour by Lionel Fielden published in Horizon |
| George Gissing|"George Gissing"}} | format=dmy|1948|5}} | CEJL IV, EL | Unpublished essay, written May–June 1948 |
| {{sort>George Orwell: A Life In Letters|George Orwell: A Life in Letters}} | format=dmy|2011|5|10}} | – | Edited by Peter Davison, published in London by Harvill Secker and in the United States by Penguin |
| Germans Still Doubt Our Unity|"The Germans Still Doubt Our Unity"}} | format=dmy|1945|4|29}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Glimpses and Reflections by John Galsworthy | format=dmy|1938|3|12}} | CEJL I, CW XI | Review of Glimpses and Reflections by John Galsworthy, published in the New Statesman and Nation Vol. XV (12 March) 1938) p. 428.[65][23] |
| Going Down|"Going Down"}} | format=dmy|1945|1|14}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Good Bad Books|"Good Bad Books"}} | format=dmy|1945|11|2}} | CEJL IV, SaE, EL, AAIP | Published in Tribune |
| Good Middle|"A Good 'Middle'"}} | format=dmy|1930|10}} | CEJL I | Review of Angel Pavement by J. B. Priestley, published in The Adelphi, signed "E. A. Blair" |
| Good Travellers|"Good Travellers"}} | format=dmy|1939|12|2}} | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| Good Word For The Vicar Of Bray|"A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray"}} | format=dmy|1946|4|26}} | SaN, SaE, OR, CEJL IV, EL, FUF, STCM | Published in Tribune |
| {{sort>Great Dictator|The Great Dictator}} | format=dmy|1940|12|21}} | AAIP | Film review published in Time and Tide |
| Great Morning by Osbert Sitwell | format=dmy|1948|7}} | CEJL IV, EL | Book review published in The Adelphi, July/September 1948 |
| Green Flag|"The Green Flag"}} | format=dmy|1945|10|28}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Grounds For Dismay|"Grounds for Dismay"}} | format=dmy|1944|4|9}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Guerillas|"Guerillas"}} | format=dmy|1940|12|14}} | – | Published in New Statesman and Nation |
| Hanging|"A Hanging"}} | format=dmy|1931|8}} | CEJL I, ColE, DotEM, EL, FUF, OP, OR, SaE, WIW | Published in The Adelphi, reprinted in The New Savoy in 1946, signed "Eric A. Blair" |
| Happy Vicar I Might Have Been|"A Happy Vicar I Might Have Been"}} | format=dmy|1935}} | – | Poem |
| Herman Melville|"Herman Melville"}} | format=dmy|1930|3}} | CEJL I, CW X | Review of Herman Melville: A Study of His Life and Vision by Lewis Mumford, published in The New Adelphi, Vol. III, No. 3 (March–May 1930), pp. 206–208, signed "E. A. Blair"[67] |
| Hidden Spain|"Hidden Spain"}} | format=dmy|1943|11|28}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| History Books|"History Books"}} | format=dmy|1940|9|21}} | – | Published in New Statesman and Nation |
| Holding Out|"Holding Out"}} | format=dmy|1940|9|14}} | – | Published in New Statesman and Nation |
| {{sort>Homage To Catalonia|Homage to Catalonia}} | format=dmy|1938|4|25}} | CN, CW VI, {{nowrap>OR (excerpts)}}, OS | Published by Secker and Warburg in London on 25 April 1938 and by Harcourt, Brace and Company in New York on 15 May 1952.[68] |
| Homage to Catalonia|"Homage to Catalonia"}} | format=dmy|1938|5|14}} | CW XI, OS | Letter to the editor in response to a review of Homage to Catalonia by Maurice Percy Ashley (30 April 1938). Published in The Times Literary Supplement (14 May 1938) p. 336.[69][19] |
| Homage to Catalonia|"Homage to Catalonia"}} | format=dmy|1938|5|28}} | CW XI, OS | A second letter to the editor in response to Maurice Percy Ashley's review of Homage to Catalonia. Published in The Times Literary Supplement (28 May 1938) p. 370.[69][19] |
| Hop-Picking|"Hop-Picking"}} | format=dmy|1931|10|17}} | CEJL I, OE | Published in The New Statesman and Nation, a longer version appears in Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters I |
| How The Poor Die|"How the Poor Die"}} | format=dmy|1946|11}} | CEJL IV, ColE, DotEM, EL, FUF, OD, OR, SaE | Published in Now number six |
| Hundred Up|"A Hundred Up"}} | format=dmy|1944|2|13}} | CEJL III, EL, OY | Book review of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens published in The Observer |
| Imaginary Interview: George Orwell And Jonathan Swift|"Imaginary Interview: George Orwell and Jonathan Swift"}} | format=dmy|1942|11|2}} | EL, WB | Broadcast by BBC African Service, titled by West as "Jonathan Swift, an Imaginary Interview" |
| Impenetrable Mystery|"Impenetrable Mystery"}} | format=dmy|1938|6|9}} | CEJL I, CW XI, EL, OP | Review of Assignment in Utopia by Eugene Lyons, published in New English Weekly Vol. XIII, No. 9 (9 June 1938) pp. 169–170.[73][19] |
| In A Strange Land: Essays By Eric Gill|In a Strange Land: Essays by Eric Gill by Eric Gill}} | format=dmy|1944|7|9}} | EL, OY | Book review published in The Observer |
| In Defence Of Comrade Zilliacus|"In Defence of {{lang|ru|Comrade Zilliacus}}"}} | format=dmy|1947|8}} | CEJL IV, EL | Unpublished essay intended for Tribune, August/September 1947 |
| In Defence Of English Cooking|"In Defence of English Cooking"}} | format=dmy|1945|12|15}} | CEJL III, EL, FUF, STCM | Published in Evening Standard |
| In Defence Of P. G. Wodehouse|"In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse"}} | format=dmy|1945|7}} | CEJL III, ColE, CrE, EL, OD, OR, STCM | Published in The Windmill number two |
| In Defence Of The Novel|"In Defence of the Novel"}} | format=dmy|1936|11|12}} | CEJL I, EL | Published in two issues of New English Weekly from 12 and 19 November 1936 |
| In Front Of Your Nose|"In Front of Your Nose"}} | format=dmy|1946|3|22}} | CEJL IV, EL, FUF | Published in Tribune |
| In Pursuit Of Lord Acton|"In Pursuit of Lord Acton"}} | format=dmy|1946|3|29}} | – | Published in Tribune |
| In The Firing Line|"In the Firing Line"}} | format=dmy|1944|1|2}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Indian Ink|"Indian Ink"}} | format=dmy|1944|10|29}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Inside The Whale|"Inside the Whale"}} | format=dmy|1940|3|11}} | ItW, SSWtJ, EYE, CoE, SE, ColE, CEJL I, EL, AAIP | Published as part of Inside the Whale and Other Essays |
| {{sort>Inside The Whale And Other Essays|Inside the Whale and Other Essays}} | format=dmy|1940|3|11}} | – | Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd on 11 March 1940. A different publication by the same name—identical to Selected Essays—was released in the United Kingdom in 1962. |
| Intellectual Revolt|"The Intellectual Revolt"}} | format=dmy|1946|1|24}} | EL | Published as part one of a series (with "What Is Socialism?", "The Christian Reformers", and "Pacifism and Progress") in Manchester Evening News |
| {{sort>Interlude In Spain|An Interlude in Spain}} by Charles d'Ydewalle, translated by Eric Sutton | format=dmy|1944|12|24}} | EL, OY | Published in The Observer |
| Introduction to Love of Life and Other Stories by Jack London | format=dmy|1945|10}} | CEJL IV, EL | Introduction to this compilation published in the United Kingdom, October–November 1945 |
| Introduction To The Position Of Peggy Harper By Leonard Merrick|Introduction to The Position of Peggy Harper by Leonard Merrick}} | format=dmy|1945|12}} | CEJL IV | Introduction to an intended reprinting of the text that was never published, written in winter 1945 |
| Introduction To The French Edition Of Down And Out In Paris And London|Introduction to the French edition of Down and Out in Paris and London}} | format=dmy|1935|5|8}} | CEJL I, OD | {{lang>fr|La Vache Enragée}} by Éditions Gallimard |
| Ironic Poem About Prostitution|"An Ironic Poem About Prostitution|s:Ironic Poem About Prostitution"}} | format=dmy|1935}} | – | Poem from some time before 1936 |
| Is There Any Truth In Spiritualism?|"Is There Any Truth in Spiritualism?"}} | format=dmy|1920|7|9}} | CW X | College Days No. 5, p. 140, signed "The Bishop of Borstall"[sic][39][76]{{refn>group=note|name=CollegeDays}} |
| It Looks Different From Abroad|"It Looks Different from Abroad"}} | format=dmy|1946|12|2}} | Article published in The New Republic |
| Jack London|"Jack London"}} | format=dmy|1943|3|5}} | WB | Broadcast by the BBC |
| Second Thoughts on James Burnham | format=dmy|1946|5}} | CEJL IV, ColE, CW XVIII, EL, OR, SaE | Essay published in Polemic, and later the same year reprinted as a separate pamphlet by the Socialist Book Club as James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution |
| James Joyce by Harry Levin | format=dmy|1944|3|2}} | EL | Book review published in Manchester Evening News |
| John Galsworthy|"John Galsworthy"}} | format=dmy|1929|3|23}} | – | Published in French in Monde |
| Joint Control Of Reich In Danger|"Joint Control of Reich in Danger"}} | format=dmy|1945|5|27}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Joseph Conrad|"Joseph Conrad"}} | format=dmy|1949|4}} | CEJL IV | Unpublished and unfinished essay written c. April 1949 |
| Just Junk – But Who Could Resist It?|"Just Junk – But Who Could Resist It?"}} | format=dmy|1946|1|5}} | EL, OE | Published as a Saturday Essay in Evening Standard |
| Keep the Aspidistra Flying | format=dmy|1936|4|20}} | CN, CW IV, {{nowrap>OR (excerpts)}} | Published by Victor Gollancz, Ltd in London on 20 April 1936. |
| Kitchener|"Kitchener"}} | format=dmy|1916|7|21}} | CW X | Poem published in the Henley and South Oxfordshire Standard Vol. XXVI, No. 1549, p. 3, signed "E. A. Blair"[14] |
| Lady Gregory's Journals, edited by Lennox Robinson | format=dmy|1947|4|19}} | EL | Book review published in The New Yorker |
| Lady Windermere's Fan|"Lady Windermere's Fan"}} | format=dmy|1943|11|21}} | WB | Commentary on Oscar Wilde's play broadcast by the BBC |
| A Channel Story by Nevil Shute and Nailcruncher by Albert Cohen, translated by Vyvyan Holland | format=dmy|1940|12|7}} | CEJL II | Book review published in New Statesman and Nation |
| Lear, Tolstoy And The Fool|"Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool"}} | format=dmy|1947|3|7}} | SaE, OR, SE, ColE, CEJL IV, EL, AAIP, STCM | Published in Polemic |
| Lesser Evil|"The Lesser Evil"}} | format=dmy|1924}} | – | Poem |
| Lessons Of War|"The Lessons of War"}} | format=dmy|1940|2}} | – | Published in Horizon |
| Letter From England To Partisan Review|"Letter from England to Partisan Review"}} | format=dmy|1943|3}} | CEJL II | Published in Partisan Review, March/April 1943 |
| Letter To An Indian|"Letter to an Indian"}} | format=dmy|1943|3|19}} | – | Published in Tribune |
| Letter to the editor | format=dmy|1940|6|22}} | CEJL II, EL | Published in Time and Tide |
| Letter to the editor | format=dmy|1942|10|12}} | CEJL II | Unpublished letter addressed to The Times |
| Letter to the editor | format=dmy|1945|6|26}} | CEJL III | Unpublished letter addressed to Tribune |
| Letter to the editor | format=dmy|1946|2|25}} | CEJL IV | An open letter about the Nuremberg Trials signed by several authors published in Forward |
| Letter to the editor | format=dmy|1946|6}} | CEJL IV | Konni Zilliacus wrote an open letter in response to Orwell's "London Letter" 15, and Orwell wrote a response, both of which were published in this issue of Tribune, Summer 1946 |
| Liberal Intervention Aids Labour|"Liberal Intervention Aids Labour"}} | format=dmy|1945|7|1}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Limit To Pessimism|"The Limit to Pessimism"}} | format=dmy|1940|4|25}} | CEJL I, EL | Review of The Thirties by Malcolm Muggeridge, published in the New English Weekly |
| Lion And The Unicorn: Socialism And The English Genius|"The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius"}} | format=dmy|1941|1|19}} | CEJL II, EL, OE, OR, WIW | Published by Secker and Warburg as Searchlight Books No. 1 |
| Literature And The Left|"Literature and the Left"}} | format=dmy|1943|6|4}} | CEJL II, EL | Published in Tribune |
| Literature And Totalitarianism|"Literature and Totalitarianism"}} | format=dmy|1941|5|21}} | CEJL II, EL | Initially broadcast over BBC Overseas Service, printed in The Listener on 19 June 1941 |
| Little Poem|"A Little Poem"}} | format=dmy|1935}} | – | Poem |
| {{sort>Lively Lady|The Lively Lady}} by Kenneth Roberts, War Paint by F. V. Morley, Long Shadows by Lady Sanderson, Who Goes Home? by Richard Curle, and Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers | format=dmy|1936|1|23}} | CEJL I | Book review published in New English Weekly |
| London Letters 01|"London Letters" #1}} | format=dmy|1941|3}} | CEJL II, {{nowrap>OP (excerpt)}} | The first of several pieces of correspondence published in Partisan Review, March/April 1941 |
| London Letters 02|"London Letters" #2}} | format=dmy|1941|3}} | CEJL II | Published in Partisan Review, March/April 1941 |
| London Letters 03|"London Letters" #3}} | format=dmy|1941|7}} | CEJL II, {{nowrap>OP (excerpt)}} | Published in Partisan Review, July/August 1941 |
| London Letters 04|"London Letters" #4}} | format=dmy|1941|11}} | CEJL II | Published in Partisan Review, November/December 1941 |
| London Letters 05|"London Letters" #5}} | format=dmy|1942|3}} | CEJL II | Published in Partisan Review, March/April 1942 |
| London Letters 06|"London Letters" #6}} | format=dmy|1942|7}} | CEJL II | Published in Partisan Review, July/August 1942; also known as "The British Crisis" |
| London Letters 07|"London Letters" #7}} | format=dmy|1942|11}} | CEJL II | Published in Partisan Review, November/December 1942 |
| London Letters 08|"London Letters" #8}} | format=dmy|1943|3}} | CEJL II, OP | Published in Partisan Review, March/April 1943 |
| London Letters 09|"London Letters" #9}} | format=dmy|1943|7}} | CEJL II | Published in Partisan Review, July/August 1943 |
| London Letters 10|"London Letters" #10}} | format=dmy|1944|3}} | CEJL III | Published in Partisan Review, Spring 1944; sent 15 January 1944 |
| London Letters 11|"London Letters" #11}} | format=dmy|1944|6}} | CEJL III | Published in Partisan Review, Summer 1944; sent 17 April 1944 |
| London Letters 12|"London Letters" #12}} | format=dmy|1944|12}} | CEJL III | Published in Partisan Review, Winter 1944; sent 24 July 1944 |
| London Letters 13|"London Letters" #13}} | format=dmy|1945|6}} | CEJL III | Published in Partisan Review, Summer 1945; sent 5 June 1945 |
| London Letters 14|"London Letters" #14}} | format=dmy|1945|9}} | CEJL III | Published in Partisan Review, Fall 1945; sent c. 15 August 1945 |
| London Letters 15|"London Letters" #15}} | format=dmy|1946|6}} | CEJL IV | Published in Partisan Review, Summer 1946; sent early May 1946 |
| Looking Back On The Spanish War|"Looking Back on the Spanish War"}} | format=dmy|1943}} | SSWtJ, EYE, CoE, ColE, CEJL II, EL, FUF | Published in New Road, probably written in 1942 |
| Looking Before And After|"Looking Before and After"}} | format=dmy|1939|10|21}} | CW XI | Review of Green Worlds by Maurice G. Hindus and I Haven't Unpacked by William Holt, published in Time and Tide[78] |
| Lost World|"A Lost World"}} | format=dmy|1948|2|1}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Lure Of Atrocity|"The Lure of Atrocity"}} | format=dmy|1938|6|23}} | CW XI, OS | Spain's Ordeal by Robert Sencourt and Franco's Rule by anonymous, published in The New English Weekly Vol. XIII, No. 11(23 June 191938) p, 210.[79][19]{{refn>group=note|name=SpanishTragedy}} |
| Lure Of Profundity|"The Lure of Profundity"}} | format=dmy|1937|12|30}} | CW XI | Review of Invertebrate Spain by José Ortega y Gasset, published in the New English Weekly Vol. XII, No. 12 (30 December 1937) pp. 235–236.[81][23] |
| Macbeth|"Macbeth"}} | format=dmy|1943|10|17}} | WB | Commentary on William Shakespeare's play broadcast by the BBC |
| {{sort>Machievellians|The Machievellians}} by James Burnham | format=dmy|1944|1|20}} | EL | Book review published in Manchester Evening News |
| Man And The Maid|"The Man and the Maid"}} | 1916|format=hide}}{{nowrap|c. 1916–1918}} | CW X | Play (incomplete), manuscript, 26 ff.[83][84] |
| Man From The Sea|"Man from the Sea"}} | format=dmy|1945|6|24}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Man In Kid Gloves|"The Man in Kid Gloves"}} | format=dmy|1929|6}} | – | Short story that was written before the summer of 1929 and has not survived |
| Many Are Called by Edward Newhouse | format=dmy|1951}} | LO | This book blurb is considered by Davison to be a spurious attribution to Orwell; no other compendium has included it. |
| Mark Twain – The Licensed Jester|"Mark Twain – The Licensed Jester"}} | format=dmy|1943|11|26}} | CEJL II | Published in Tribune |
| Marrakech|"Marrakech"}} | format=dmy|1939|12|25}} | SSWtJ, CoE, ColE, CEJL I, EL, FUF | Published in New Writing, New Series number three |
| Marx And Russia|"Marx and Russia"}} | format=dmy|1948|2|15}} | EL, OY | Published in The Observer |
| Meaning Of A Poem|"The Meaning of a Poem"}} | format=dmy|1941|5|7}} | CEJL II, EL | Initially broadcast over BBC Overseas Service on 14 May 1941, printed in The Listener on 5 June 1941 |
| Meaning Of Sabotage|"The Meaning of Sabotage"}} | format=dmy|1942|1|29}} | WB | Broadcast by the BBC |
| Millionaire's Pearl|"The Millionaire's Pearl"}} | format=dmy|1920|7|9}} | CW X | College Days No. 5, pp. 152, 154, 156[39][86]{{refn>group=note|name=CollegeDays}} |
| {{lang>de|Mein Kampf}} by Adolf Hitler, unabridged translation | format=dmy|1940|3|21}} | CEJL II, EL, OP | Book review published in The New English Weekly |
| Men Of The Isles|"Men of the Isles"}} | format=dmy|1948|2|29}} | EL, OY | Book review of The Atlantic Islands by Kenneth Williamson, published in The Observer |
| Milton In Striped Trousers|"Milton in Striped Trousers"}} | format=dmy|1945|10|12}} | – | Published in Tribune |
| Milton: Man and Thinker by Denis Saurat | format=dmy|1944|8|20}} | EL, OY | Book review published in The Observer |
| Mind at the End of its Tether by H. G. Wells | format=dmy|1945|11|8}} | EL | Book review published in Manchester Evening News |
| Mis-Observation|"Mis-Observation"}} | format=dmy|1940|10|26}} | – | Published in New Statesman and Nation |
| Money And Guns|"Money and Guns"}} | format=dmy|1942|1|20}} | WB, EL | Published in Through Eastern Eyes and broadcast by the BBC |
| Moon Under Water|"The Moon Under Water"}} | format=dmy|1946|2|9}} | CEJL III, EL, FUF | Published as a Saturday Essay in Evening Standard |
| More News From Tartary|"More News from Tartary"}} | format=dmy|1937|9|4}} | CW XI | Review of Forbidden Journey by Ella K. Maillart translated from the French by Thomas MacGreevy, published in Time and Tide Vol. XVIII, No. 36 (4 September 1937) p. 1175.[87][25] |
| My Country Right Or Left|"My Country Right or Left"}} | format=dmy|1940|9}} | CEJL I, EL, FUF, OE | Published in Folios of New Writing, number two, Autumn 1940 |
| Moscow And Madrid|"Moscow and Madrid"}} | format=dmy|1940|1|20}} | CEJL I | Review of The Last Days of Madrid by S. Casado, translated by Rupert Croft-Cooke, and Behind the Battle by T. C. Worsley, published in Time and Tide Vol. 21, No. 3, p. 62[89] |
| Mr Dickens Sits For His Portrait|"Mr Dickens Sits for His Portrait"}} | format=dmy|1949|5|15}} | – | Published in New York Times Book Review |
| Mr Joad's Point Of View|"Mr Joad's Point of View"}} | format=dmy|1940|6|8}} | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| Mr Simpson And The Supernatural|"Mr Simpson and the Supernatural"}} | format=dmy|1920|6|4}} | CW X | Short story published unsigned in Bubble and Squeak No. 2, pp. 40–42, probably by Orwell[15][91] |
| Mr Sludge|"Mr Sludge"}} | format=dmy|1948|6|6}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Mrs Puffin And The Missing Matches|"Mrs Puffin and the Missing Matches"}} | 1919|format=hide}}{{nowrap|c. 1919–1922}} | CW X | Short story, handwritten manuscript, date very uncertain[92] |
| Muffled Voice|"Muffled Voice"}} | format=dmy|1945|6|10}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| My Epitaph By John Flory|"My Epitaph by John Flory"}} | format=dmy|1934}} | CEJL I | A passage edited from Burmese Days |
| My Life: The Autobiography of Havelock Ellis by Havelock Ellis | format=dmy|1940|5}} | EL | Book review published in The Adelphi |
| Nationalism|"Nationalism"}} | format=dmy|1943|5|14}} | – | Published in Tribune |
| New Words|"New Words"}} | format=dmy|1940|2}} | CEJL II, EL | Unpublished, written in February–April 1940 |
| New World|"New World"}} | format=dmy|1944|9|17}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| New Year Message|"A New Year Message"}} | format=dmy|1945|1|5}} | CEJL III | Published in Tribune |
| Nice Cup Of Tea|"A Nice Cup of Tea"}} | format=dmy|1946|1|12}} | CEJL III, EL, FUF | Published as a Saturday Essay in Evening Standard |
| Nicholas Moore Vs. George Orwell|"Nicholas Moore vs. George Orwell"}} | format=dmy|1942|1}} | – | Published in Partisan Review, January/February 1942 |
| Nigger Of The 'Narcissus', Typhoon, The Shadow Line, Within The Tides By Joseph Conrad|The Nigger of the 'Narcissus', Typhoon, The Shadow Line, Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad}} | format=dmy|1945|6|24}} | CEJL III, OY | Book review published in Observer |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | format=dmy|1949|6|8}} | CN, CW IX, {{nowrap>OR (excerpts)}} | Published by Secker and Warburg in London on 8 June 1949. |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Facsimile of the Extant Manuscript | format=dmy|1984|5}} | – | 0-15-166034-4}}). |
| No, Not One|"No, Not One"}} | format=dmy|1941|10}} | CEJL II, EL, AAIP | Book review of No Such Liberty by Alex Comfort published in The Adelphi |
| {{lang>fr|Noblesse Oblige}}—Another Letter to My Son by Osbert Sitwell | format=dmy|1944|11|30}} | CEJL III | Book review published in Manchester Evening News. James Agate wrote a response to Orwell published on 21 December 1944 and Orwell responded to this (with a piece named "A Controversy: Agate: Orwell" in Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters III) in the same issue. |
| Nonsense Poetry: The Lear Omnibus Edited By R. L. Megroz|"Nonsense Poetry: The Lear Omnibus Edited by R. L. Mégroz"}} | format=dmy|1945|12|21}} | SaE, CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| Not Counting Niggers|"Not Counting Niggers"}} | format=dmy|1939|7}} | CEJL I, CW XI, EL, OP | Review of Union Now by Clarence K. Streit published in The Adelphi[93] |
| Not Enough Money: A Sketch Of George Gissing|"Not Enough Money: A Sketch of George Gissing"}} | format=dmy|1943|4|2}} | EL, OD | Published in Tribune |
| Notes On Nationalism|"Notes on Nationalism"}} | format=dmy|1945|10}} | EYE, ColE, DotEM, CEJL III, EL | Published in Polemic: A Magazine of Philosophy, Psychology & Aesthetics, number one |
| Notes On The Spanish Militias|"Notes on the Spanish Militias"}} | 1938|format=hide}}{{nowrap|c. 1938–1939}} | CEJL I, CW XI, EL, OS | c. 1938–1939[94]{{refn>group=note|It is unknown when Orwell wrote these notes. Davison posits a date of composition in early 1939 or possible earlier, writing that "[the] notes may have been written when Orwell was working on Homage to Catalonia, but more probably after its publication." A later date is, however, also possible, Davison adds that Orwell's friend Geoffrey Gorer "guessed their date of composition as summer 1940, after Dunkirk, for someone at the War Office interested in the experience of militias as resistance fighters."[94]}} |
| Notes On The Way|"Notes on the Way"}} | format=dmy|1940|3|30}} | CEJL II, EL, OD | Published in two issues of Time and Tide, 30 March and 6 April 1940 |
| Note To Whitehall's Road To Mandalay By Robert Duval|"Note to Whitehall's Road to Mandalay by Robert Duval"}} | format=dmy|1943|4|2}} | – | Published in Tribune |
| Occupation's Effect On French Outlook|"Occupation's Effect on French Outlook"}} | format=dmy|1945|3|4}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Ode to Field Days|"Ode to Field Days"}} | format=dmy|1920|4|1}} | CW X | College Days No. 4, p. 114, probably by Orwell[15]{{refn>group=note|name=ErrataCollegeDays}}{{refn|group=note|name=CollegeDays}} |
| Of Ants and Men by Caryl Parker Haskins | format=dmy|1946|5|5}} | EL, OY | Published in The Observer |
| Old George's Almanac|"Old George's Almanac"}} | format=dmy|1945|12|28}} | – | Published in Tribune, signed "Crystal-Gazer Orwell" |
| Old Master|"Old Master"}} | format=dmy|1944|3|26}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| On A Ruined Farm Near The His Master's Voice Gramophone Factory|"On a Ruined Farm Near the His Master's Voice Gramophone Factory"}} | format=dmy|1934|4}} | CEJL I, OE | Poem published in The Adelphi, later selected for The Best Poems of 1934 by Thomas Moult |
| On Housing|"On Housing"}} | format=dmy|1946|1|25}} | – | Published in Tribune |
| On Kipling's Death|"On Kipling's Death"}} | format=dmy|1936|1|23}} | CEJL I, EL | Published in New English Weekly |
| On The Brink|"On the Brink"}} | format=dmy|1940|7|13}} | – | Published in New Statesman and Nation |
| Orwell On Churchill A Critic Views A Statesman|"Orwell on Churchill: A Critic Views a Statesman"}} | format=dmy|1949|5|14}} | CEJL IV, CW XX | Review of Their Finest Hour by Winston Churchill, published in The New Leader (14 May 1949) p. 10[97] |
| {{sort>Orwell Reader, Fiction, Essays, And Reportage|The Orwell Reader, Fiction, Essays, and Reportage}} | format=dmy|1956}} | – | Published by Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich in New York City |
| Our Minds Are Married, But We Are Too Young|"Our Minds Are Married, but We Are Too Young"}} | 1918|12|format=hide}}{{nowrap|Christmas 1918}} | CW X | Poem given to Jacintha Buddicom[98] |
| Our Opportunity|"Our Opportunity"}} | format=dmy|1941|1}} | – | Published in Left News |
| Our Own Have-Nots|"Our Own Have-Nots"}} | format=dmy|1937|11|27}} | CW XI | Review of The Problem of the Distressed Areas by Wal Hannington, Grey Children by James Hanley and The Fight for the Charter by Gordon Neil Stewart, published in Time and Tide Vol. XVIII, No. 48 (27 November 1937) p. 1588.[99][23] |
| Out Of Step|"Out of Step"}} | format=dmy|1943|11|7}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Outside And Inside Views|"Outside and Inside Views"}} | format=dmy|1939|6|8}} | CW XI | Review of The Mysterious Mr Bull by Wyndham Lewis and The School for Dictators by Ignazio Silone, published in The New English Weekly[101] |
| Oysters And Brown Stout|"Oysters and Brown Stout"}} | format=dmy|1944|11|22}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| Pacifism And Progress|"Pacifism and Progress"}} | format=dmy|1946|2|14}} | EL | Published as part one of a series (with "What Is Socialism?", "The Intellectual Revolt", and "The Christian Reformers") in Manchester Evening News |
| Pacifism And The War|"Pacifism and the War"}} | format=dmy|1942|9}} | CEJL II | Correspondence between Orwell, Alex Comfort, D. S. Savage, and George Woodcock, published in Partisan Review, September/October 1942; also known as "A Controversy" |
| Pagan|"The Pagan"}} | 1918|10|format=hide}}{{nowrap|Autumn 1918}} | CW X | Poem sent to Jacintha Buddicom[98] |
| Pamphlet Literature|"Pamphlet Literature"}} | format=dmy|1943|1|9}} | CEJL II | Published in New Statesman and Nation |
| Paris Is Not France|"Paris Is Not France"}} | format=dmy|1943|9|12}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Paris Puts A Gay Face On Her Miseries|"Paris Puts a Gay Face on Her Miseries"}} | format=dmy|1945|2|25}} | LO, OY | Published in The Observer |
| Patriots And Revolutionaries|"Patriots and Revolutionaries"}} | format=dmy|1941|3|3}} | – | Published in Betrayal of the Left by Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| Peep into the Future|"A Peep into the Future"}} | format=dmy|1918|6|3}} | CW X | The Election Times No. 4, pp. 15–24[14]{{refn>group=note|name=ElectionTimes|The Election Times was produced by Eric Blair (Orwell) and other Eton scholars. Issues consisted of sets of handwritten pages and the precise makeup of each issue is therefore unclear. Blair was involved in the production of five issues, out of which only one, Number 4 (3 June 1918) have survived intact. Blair is listed as business manager, Denys King-Farlow as art manager, and Roger Mynors as editor. Attributions of authorship is complicated because contributions were anonymous and the producers sometimes wrote out texts other than their own.
Out of the contributions which can be attributed to Orwell with some certainty, Davison lists the three short stories, "The Adventure of the Lost Meat-card", "A Peep into the Future", and "The Slack-bob", as published in The Election Times No. 4. Fenwick additionally lists the dramatic sketch "Free Will", the poem "The Wounded Cricketer (Not Walt Whitman)", and two stanzas of the poem "The Youthful Mariner", as published in the issue. According to Davison the poems and the dramatic sketch listed by Fenwick, as well as the poem "The Photographer" and some or all of the poem "The Millionaires Pearl" may have formed part of the issue or may have been intended for another issue. All five of these uncertain additions, as well as "The Slack-bob", were, however, later reprinted in their original, or revised, form in College Days No. 5. For further discussion on attribution of the texts in The Election Times, see Davison, The Complete Works, Vol. 10, entry 29.[104][105]}} |
| People's Victory|"The People's Victory"}} | format=dmy|1941|2|15}} | – | Published in New Statesman and Nation |
| Perfide Albion|"Perfide Albion"}} | format=dmy|1942|11|21}} | – | Published in New Statesman and Nation |
| Personal Notes On Scientifiction|"Personal Notes on Scientifiction"}} | format=dmy|1945|7|21}} | EL | Published in Leader Magazine |
| Personal Record by Julien Green | format=dmy|1940|4|13}} | CEJL II | Book review published in Time and Tide |
| The Photographer|"The Photographer"}} | format=dmy|1920|7|9}} | CW X | College Days No. 5, p. 130[39][107]{{refn>group=note|name=CollegeDays}} |
| Petition Crown|"The Petition Crown"}} | format=dmy|1929|6}} | – | Short story that was written before the summer of 1929 and has not survived |
| Pity And Terror|"Pity and Terror"}} | format=dmy|1945|10|7}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Pleasure Spots|"Pleasure Spots"}} | format=dmy|1946|1|11}} | CEJL IV, EL | Essay written during his stay in Burma, 1922–1927. Published in Tribune |
| Poet And Priest|"Poet and Priest"}} | format=dmy|1944|11|12}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Poet In Darkness|"Poet in Darkness"}} | format=dmy|1944|12|31}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Poetry And The Microphone|"Poetry and the Microphone"}} | format=dmy|1945|3}} | CEJL II, ColE, EL, EYE, OE, SSWtJ | Published in The New Saxon Pamphlet number three, probably written in the summer of 1943 |
| Points Of View|"Points of View"}} | format=dmy|1944|12}} | – | Published in Poetry |
| Political Reflections On The Crisis|"Political Reflections on the Crisis"}} | format=dmy|1938|12}} | CW XI, EL, OP | Article published in The Adelphi[108] |
| Politics And The English Language|"Politics and the English Language"}} | format=dmy|1945|12|11}} | AAIP, CEJL IV, CoE, ColE, EL, OR, SaE, SE, WIW | Published independently as a Payments Book, later printed in Horizon, April 1946 |
| Politics Of Starvation|"The Politics of Starvation"}} | format=dmy|1946|1|18}} | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| Politics Vs. Literature: An Examination Of Gulliver's Travels|"Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels"}} | format=dmy|1946|9}} | SaE, OR, SE, ColE, CEJL IV, EL, AAIP, STCM | Published in Polemic, September/October 1946 |
| Portrait Of The General|"Portrait of the General"}} | format=dmy|1942|8|2}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Poverty – Plain And Coloured|"Poverty – Plain and Coloured"}} | format=dmy|1931}} | – | Published in The Adelphi |
| Power House|"Power House"}} | format=dmy|1944|4|23}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Preface To The Ukrainian Edition Of Animal Farm|"Preface to the Ukrainian edition of Animal Farm"}} | format=dmy|1947|3}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Polemic, January 1946, reprinted in The Atlantic Monthly, March 1947 |
| Prevention Of Literature|"The Prevention of Literature"}} | format=dmy|1946|1}} | SaE, OR, SE, ColE, CEJL IV, EL, AAIP | Published in Polemic, January 1946, reprinted in The Atlantic Monthly, March 1947 |
| Prime Minister|"Prime Minister"}} | format=dmy|1948|7|4}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Prize For Ezra Pound|"A Prize for Ezra Pound"}} | format=dmy|1949|5}} | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Partisan Review, also entitled "The Question of the Pound Award" |
| Problem Picture|"Problem Picture"}} | format=dmy|1948|11|7}} | CEJL IV, EL, OY | Book review of Portrait of the Anti-Semite by Jean-Paul Sartre, published in The Observer |
| Proletarian Writer|"The Proletarian Writer"}} | format=dmy|1940|12|6}} | CEJL II, OD | A discussion with Desmond Hawkins, initially broadcast over BBC Home Service, printed in The Listener on 19 December 1940 |
| Propaganda And Demotic Speech|"Propaganda and Demotic Speech"}} | format=dmy|1944|6}} | CEJL III, EL, AAIP | Published in Persuasion volume two, number two, Summer 1944 |
| Propagandist Critics|"Propagandist Critics"}} | format=dmy|1936|12|31}} | CEJL I, CW X, EL | Review of The Novel To-Day by Philip Henderson, published in The New English Weekly Vol. X, No. 12, pp. 229–230[109][25] |
| Prophecies Of Fascism|"Prophecies of Fascism"}} | format=dmy|1940|6|12}} | CEJL II | Published in Tribune |
| {{sort>D. H. Lawrence's Short Stories|D. H. Lawrence's Short Stories}} | format=dmy|1945|11|16}} | CEJL IV, EL | Book review of The Prussian Officer and Other Stories published in Tribune |
| {{sort>Pub And The People|The Pub and the People}} by Mass Observation | format=dmy|1943|1|21}} | CEJL III | Book review published in The Listener |
| Public Schoolboys|"Public Schoolboys"}} | format=dmy|1940|9|14}} | EL, OD | Review of Barbarians and Philistines: Democracy and the Public Schools by T. C. Worsley, published in Time and Tide |
| Puritan Poet|"Puritan Poet"}} | format=dmy|1944|8|20}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Questionable Shape|"A Questionable Shape"}} | format=dmy|1948|7|18}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Raffles And Miss Blandish|"Raffles and Miss Blandish"}} | format=dmy|1944|8|28}} | AAIP, CEJL III, CoE, ColE, CrE, DotEM, EL, OD | Published in Horizon, October 1944 and politics, November 1944 |
| Re-Discovery Of Europe|"The Re-Discovery of Europe"}} | format=dmy|1942|3|10}} | CEJL II, EL | Broadcast as the first instalment of "Literature Between Wars" by BBC Eastern Service, published in The Listener on 19 March 1942 |
| Real Adventure|"Real Adventure"}} | format=dmy|1936|7|18}} | CW X | Review of Tempest Over Mexico by Rosa E. King and Rolling Stonemason by Fred Bower, published in Time and Tide |
| Recent Novels|"Recent Novels"}} | format=dmy|1936|7|23}} | CEJL I, CW X, EL | Review of The Rock Pool by Cyril Connolly, Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad, The Wallet of Kai Lung by Ernest Bramah, Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett, Mr Fortune, Please by H. C. Bailey and The Rocklitz by George R. Preedy, published in The New English Weekly |
| Red, White, And Brown|"Red, White, and Brown"}} | format=dmy|1940|7|4}} | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| Reflections On Gandhi|"Reflections on Gandhi"}} | format=dmy|1949|1}} | SaE, CoE, OR, CEJL IV, EL, AAIP | Published in Partisan Review |
| {{sort>Reilly Plan|The Reilly Plan}} by Lawrence Wolfe | format=dmy|1946|1|25}} | CEJL IV | Book review published in Tribune |
| Reply To Horizon Questionnaire|"Reply to Horizon Questionnaire"}} | format=dmy|1947}} | – | Published in the book British Thought, published by Gresham Press in New York, 1947 |
| Return Journey|"Return Journey"}} | format=dmy|1944|7|9}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Revenge Is Sour|"Revenge Is Sour"}} | format=dmy|1945|11|9}} | CEJL IV, EL, FUF | Published in Tribune |
| Review of 'Homage to Catalonia'|"Review of 'Homage to Catalonia'"}} | format=dmy|1938|6|16}} | CW XI, OS | Letter to the editor in response to a review of Homage to Catalonia by Philip Furneaux Jordan (25 May 1938). Published in The Listener (16 June 1938) p. 1295.[111][19] |
| Review of Alexander Pope by Edith Sitwell and The Course of English Classicism by Sherard Vines | format=dmy|1930|6}} | CEJL I, CW X | Untitled book review published in The New Adelphi, Vol. III, No. 4 (June–August 1930), pp. 338–340, signed "E. A. Blair"[67] |
| Revolt In The Urban Desert|"Revolt in the Urban Desert"}} | format=dmy|1943|10|10}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Riding Down From Bangor|"Riding Down from Bangor"}} | format=dmy|1946|11|22}} | SaE, CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| Right To Free Expression|"The Right to Free Expression"}} | format=dmy|1946|09}} | – | Written by Randall Swingler with commentary from Orwell, published in Polemic, September/October 1946 |
| {{sort>Roadman's Day|A Roadman's Day}} | format=dmy|1941|3|15}} | CW XXIII, OD | Published in Picture Post |
| {{sort>Road To Serfdom|The Road to Serfdom}} by Friedrich Hayek and The Mirror of the Past by Konni Zilliacus | format=dmy|1943|4|9}} | CEJL III, OY | Book review published in Observer |
| {{sort>Road To Wigan Pier|The Road to Wigan Pier}} | format=dmy|1937|3|8}} | CW V, {{nowrap>EYE (chs. 2 and 7)}},{{refn|group=note|name=NorthandSouth|In the collection England Your England and Other Essays chapter two of The Road to Wigan Pier is reprinted as "Down the Mine" and chapter seven as "North and South".}} OD, {{nowrap|OR (excerpts)}}, {{nowrap|SE (ch. 2)}}{{refn|group=note|name=DowntheMine|In the collection Selected Essays chapter two of The Road to Wigan Pier is reprinted under the title "Down the Mine".}} | Published by Victor Gollancz, Ltd in London on 8 March 1937[114] |
| Road To Wigan Pier Diary|"The Road to Wigan Pier Diary"}} | format=dmy|1936|1|31}} | CEJL I | Excerpts of Orwell's diary |
| Romance|"Romance"}} | format=dmy|1925}} | – | Poem |
| Romantic Case|"The Romantic Case"}} | format=dmy|1941|7|23}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Rudyard Kipling|"Rudyard Kipling"}} | format=dmy|1942|2}} | AAIP, CEJL II, CoE, CrE, DotEM, EL, OD, OR | Published in Horizon |
| Ruling Class|"The Ruling Class"}} | format=dmy|1940|12}} | – | Published in Horizon, later incorporated into "The Lion and the Unicorn" |
| Russian Regime|"Russian Regime"}} | format=dmy|1939|1|12}} | CEJL I, CW XI, EL, OP | Review of Russia Under Soviet Rule by Nicolas de Basily published in The New English Weekly[115] |
| Ruth Pitter's Poetry|"Ruth Pitter's Poetry"}} | format=dmy|1940|2}} | – | Published in The Adelphi |
| Sanctified Sinner|"The Sanctified Sinner"}} | format=dmy|1948|7|17}} | CEJL IV, EL, AAIP | Book review of The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene, published in The New Yorker |
| Satirical Bullseyes|"Satirical Bullseyes"}} | format=dmy|1945|9|7}} | – | Published in Tribune |
| Sea God|"The Sea God"}} | format=dmy|1929|6}} | – | Short story that was written before the summer of 1929 and has not survived |
| Selected Essays | format=dmy|1957}} | – | Published by Penguin Group in London |
| Slack-bob|"The Slack-bob"}} | format=dmy|1918|6|3}} | CW X | The Election Times No. 4, pp. 29–32. Revised and reprinted in College Days No. 5 (9 July 1920) p. 146, also unsigned.[14]{{refn>group=note|name=ElectionTimes}}{{refn|group=note|name=CollegeDays}} |
| Shooting An Elephant|"Shooting an Elephant"}} | format=dmy|1936|9}} | CEJL I, CoE, ColE, EL, FUF, OP, OR, SaE, SE, STCM | Published in New Writing, number two, Autumn 1936, broadcast on the BBC Home Service 12 October 1948 |
| Shooting An Elephant And Other Essays|Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays}} | format=dmy|1950|10|5}} | – | Published by Secker and Warburg in London |
| Singing Men|"Singing Men"}} | format=dmy|1944|11|26}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| {{sort>Slip Under The Microscope|A Slip Under the Microscope}} by H. G. Wells | format=dmy|1943|9|9}} | WB | Adaptation of Wells' short story as a radio drama by Orwell, broadcast by the BBC |
| Smoking Room Story|"A Smoking Room Story"}} | format=dmy|1949|4}} | CEJL IV | Unfinished story from his notebook |
| So Runs The World|"So Runs the World"}} | format=dmy|1945|7|22}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Socialists Answer Our Questions On The War|"Socialists Answer Our Questions on the War"}} | format=dmy|1941|11}} | – | Published in Left News |
| Some Recent Novels|"Some Recent Novels"}} | format=dmy|1935|11|14}} | CEJL I, CW X, EL | Review of Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller and The Wolf at the Door by Robert Francis, translated by Fraçoise Delisle, published in The New English Weekly |
| Some Thoughts On The Common Toad|"Some Thoughts on the Common Toad"}} | format=dmy|1946|4|12}} | SaE, OR, CEJL IV, EL, FUF | Published in Tribune |
| Sometimes In The Middle Autumn Days|"Sometimes in the Middle Autumn Days"}} | format=dmy|1933|3}} | – | Poem published in The Adelphi, signed "Eric Blair" |
| Songs We Used To Sing|"Songs We Used to Sing"}} | format=dmy|1946|1|19}} | EL | Published as a Saturday Essay in Evening Standard |
| Spain: Today And Yesterday|"Spain: Today and Yesterday"}} | format=dmy|1937|10|9}} | CEJL I (excerpt)}}, CW XI, OS | Review of Red Spanish Notebook by Mary Low and Juan Brea, Heroes of the Alcazar by Rodolphe Timmermans and Spanish Circus by Martin Armstrong, published in Time and Tide Vol. XVIII, No. 41 (9 October) pp. 1334–1335.[117][23] |
| Spain: The True and the False|"Spain: The True and the False"}} | format=dmy|1938|7|8}} | CEJL I, CW XI, EL, OS | The Civil War in Spain by Frank Jellinek, published in The New Leader (8 July 1938) p. 7.[119][19]{{refn>group=note|name=SpanishTragedy}}, with a correction published on 13 January 1939.[121] |
| Spaniard In Spain|"Spaniard in Spain"}} | format=dmy|1941|6|28}} | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| Spanish Nightmare|"Spanish Nightmare"}} | format=dmy|1937|7|31}} | CEJL I, CW XI, OS | Review of The Spanish Cockpit by Franz Borkenau and Volunteer in Spain by John Sommerfield, published in Time and Tide Vol. XVIII, No. 31 (31 July 1937) pp. 1047–1048.[122][25] |
| Spanish Prison|"Spanish Prison"}} | format=dmy|1944|12|24}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Spanish Quintet|"Spanish Quintet"}} | format=dmy|1937|12|11}} | CEJL I (excerpt)}}, CW XI, OS | Review of Storm Over Spain by Mairin Mitchell, Spanish Rehearsal by Arnold Lunn, Catalonia Infelix by Edgar Allison Peers, Wars of Ideas in Spain by José Castillejo and Invertebrate Spain by José Ortega y Gasset, published in Time and Tide Vol. XVIII, No. 50 (11 December 1937) pp. 1708–1709.[124][23] |
| Spanish Tragedy|"The Spanish Tragedy"}} | format=dmy|1938|7|16}} | CEJL I (excerpt)}}, CW XI | Searchlight on Spain by the Duchess of Atholl, The Civil War in Spain by Frank Jellinek and Spain's Ordeal by Robert Sencourt, published in Time and Tide Vol. XIX, No. 29 (16 July 1938) pp. 1030–1031.[126]{{refn>group=note|name=SpanishTragedy|Orwell reviewed the three works together under the headline "Spanish Tragedy" in Time and Tide, 16 July 1938. Searchlight on Spain was also review separately by Orwell in The New English Weekly, 21 July 1938, The Civil War in Spain, in The New Leader, 8 July 1938 and Spain's Ordeal, in The New English Weekly, 23 June 1938.[126]}} |
| Spanish War|"The Spanish War"}} | format=dmy|1939|12}} | – | Published in The Adelphi |
| Spearhead: Ten Years' Experimental Writing in America edited by James Laughlin | format=dmy|1948|4|17}} | EL | Book review published in The Times Literary Supplement |
| Spike|"The Spike"}} | format=dmy|1931|4}} | CEJL I, EL, FUF | Published in The Adelphi, signed "Eric Blair"; revised as chapters 27 and 35 of Down and Out in Paris and London |
| Spilling The Spanish Beans|"Spilling the Spanish Beans"}} | 1937|7|29|format=hide}}{{nowrap|29 July 1937 and}} {{nowrap|2 September 1937}} | CEJL I, CW XI, EL, OS | Article published in two parts in the New English Weekly, Vol. XI, Nos. 16-20 (29 July 1937) pp. 307–308 and Vol. XI, No. 21 (2 September 1937) pp. 328–329.[128][25] |
| {{sort>Spirit Of Catholicism|The Spirit of Catholicism}} by Karl Adam, translated by Dom Justin | format=dmy|1932|6|9}} | CEJL I | Book review published in The New English Weekly |
| Sporting Spirit|"The Sporting Spirit"}} | format=dmy|1945|12|14}} | CEJL IV, EL, FUF, OD, SaE, | Published in Tribune |
| Stalinism And Aristocracy|"Stalinism and Aristocracy"}} | format=dmy|1938|7|21}} | CEJL I, CW XI | Searchlight on Spain by the Duchess of Atholl, published the New English Weekly Vol. XIII, No. 15 (July 21 1938) pp. 275–276.[130]{{refn>group=note|name=SpanishTragedy}} |
| Stendhal by F. C. Green | format=dmy|1939|7}} | CEJL I, CWXI | Book review published in The Adelphi[131] |
| Story By Five Authors|"Story by Five Authors"}} | format=dmy|1942|10|9}} | WB | Short story written by five authors for broadcast over the BBC; Orwell's piece is first, followed by L. A. G. Strong (16 October), Inez Holden (23 October), Martin Armstrong (30 October) and E. M. Forster (6 November). |
| {{sort>Story Of Burma|The Story of Burma}} by F. Tennyson Jesse | format=dmy|1946|2|24}} | CEJL IV, OY | Book review published in Observer |
| Subject India by H. N. Brailsford | format=dmy|1943|11|20}} | EL | Book review published in The Nation and Atheneum |
| Such, Such Were The Joys|"Such, Such Were the Joys"}} | format=dmy|1947}} | CEJL IV, CoE, EL, FUF, OE, OR, SSWtJ | It is speculated that this piece was completed in 1947, but possible dates range from 1939 through June 1948. Unpublished until 1952, this essay was not printed in the United Kingdom until 1968. |
| {{sort>Such, Such Were The Joys|Such, Such Were the Joys}} | format=dmy|1953}} | – | Published by Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich in New York City in 1953 |
| Suggested By A Tooth Paste Advertisement|"Suggested by a Tooth Paste Advertisement"}} | 1922|format=hide}}{{nowrap|c. 1922–1927}} | CW X | [132]{{refn>group=note|name=BurmaDates}} |
| Summer Idyll|"A Summer Idyll"}} | format=dmy|1920|4|1}} | CW X | College Days No. 4, pp. 116, 118, possibly by Orwell[15][134]{{refn>group=note|name=ErrataCollegeDays}}{{refn|group=note|name=CollegeDays}} |
| Summer-like For An Instant|"Summer-like for an Instant"}} | format=dmy|1933}} | – | Poem |
| Survey of Civvy Street|"Survey of 'Civvy Street'"}} | format=dmy|1944|6|4}} | OE, OY | Published in The Observer |
| {{sort>Sword And The Sickle|The Sword and the Sickle}} by Mulk Raj Anand | format=dmy|1942|7}} | CEJL II, EL | Book review published in Horizon |
| Symposium... Upon Professor John Macmurray's... 'The Clue to History.'|"A Symposium... Upon Professor John Macmurray's The Clue to History"}} | format=dmy|1939|2}} | CW XI, EL | Review of The Clue of History by John Macmurray, published in The Adelphi[135] |
| Tale Of A Head|"Tale of a Head"}} | format=dmy|1945|8|19}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Taming Of Power|"The Taming of Power"}} | format=dmy|1939|1}} | CEJL I, CW XI, EL | Review of Power: A New Social Analysis by Bertrand Russell, published in The Adelphi[136] |
| Trotskyist Publications|"'Trotskyist' Publications"}} | format=dmy|1938|2|5}} | CEJL I, CW XI, OS | Letter to the editor in response to remarks made by Ellen Wilkinson in "France in Crisis" and by the pen-name Sirocco in "Time-Tide Diary", both in Time and Tide (22 January 1938), published in Time and Tide Vol. XIX, No. 6 (5 February 1938) pp. 164–165.[137][23] |
| Talking to India, by E. M. Forster, Richie Calder, Cedric Dover, Hsiao Ch'ien and Others: A Selection of English Language Broadcasts to India | format=dmy|1943}} | – | Published by Allen & Unwin, edited with an introduction by Orwell |
| Tapping The Wheels|"Tapping the Wheels"}} | format=dmy|1944|1|16}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Teller Of Tales|"Teller of Tales"}} | format=dmy|1945|11|18}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Temperature Chart|"Temperature Chart"}} | format=dmy|1944|6|25}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| {{sort>Tempest|The Tempest}} by William Shakespeare and The Peaceful Inn by Denis Ogden, Duke of York's | format=dmy|1940|6|8}} | AAIP | Drama review published in Time and Tide |
| Terror In Spain|"Terror in Spain"}} | format=dmy|1938|2|5}} | CEJL I (excerpt)}}, CW XI, OS | Review of The Tree of Gernika by G. L. Steer and Spanish Testament by Arthur Koestler, published in Time and Tide Vol. XIX, No. 6 (5 February 1938) p. 177.[139][23] |
| That Mysterious Cart|"That Mysterious Cart"}} | format=dmy|1937|9|24}} | CW XI | Reply to statements about the POUM by F.A. Frankfort (Frank Frankford) in The Daily Worker (14 September 1937) and (16 September 1937), published in the New Leader (24 September 1937) p. 3.[141][25] |
| Theatre|"Theatre"}} | format=dmy|1940|5}} | – | Published in Time and Tide from May 1940 to August 1941. |
| Then Up Waddled Wog|"Then up Waddled Wog"}} | 1919|format=hide}}{{nowrap|c. 1919}} | CW X | Verse[143] |
| Things We Do Not Want To Know|"Things We Do Not Want to Know"}} | format=dmy|1919|11|29}} | CW X | College Days No. 3, p. 78, attributed to Orwell with considerable uncertainty[15][145]{{refn>group=note|name=CollegeDays}} |
| Thomas Hardy Looks At War|"Thomas Hardy Looks at War"}} | format=dmy|1942|9|18}} | – | Published in Tribune |
| Three Years Of Home Guard|"Three Years of Home Guard"}} | format=dmy|1943|5|9}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Through A Glass, Rosily|"Through a Glass, Rosily"}} | format=dmy|1945|11|23}} | CEJL IV | Published in Tribune |
| To A. R. H. B.|"To A. R. H. B."}} | format=dmy|1919|6|27}} | CW X | College Days No. 2, p. 42, written by Denys King-Farlow, Orwell attributed as co-author with considerable uncertainty[15][147]{{refn>group=note|name=CollegeDays|For further discussion on attribution of the texts in College Days, see Davison, The Complete Works, Vol. 10, entry 37}} |
| Tobias Smollett: Scotland's Best Novelist|"Tobias Smollett: Scotland's Best Novelist"}} | format=dmy|1944|9|22}} | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| Tolstoy and Shakespeare|"Tolstoy and Shakespeare"}} | format=dmy|1941|5|7}} | CEJL II, EL | Initially broadcast over BBC Overseas Service on 7 May 1941, printed in The Listener on 5 June 1941 |
| Tolstoy: His Life and Work by Derrick Leon | format=dmy|1944|3|26}} | EL, OY | Book review published in The Observer |
| {{sort>Totalitarian Enemy|The Totalitarian Enemy}} by Franz Borkenau | format=dmy|1940|5|4}} | CEJL II | Book review published in Time and Tide |
| Toward European Unity|"Toward European Unity"}} | format=dmy|1947|7}} | CEJL IV, EL | Book review published in Partisan Review, July/August 1947. Also entitled "The Future of Socialism IV: Toward European Unity". |
| Travel Round and Down|"Travel Round and Down"}} | format=dmy|1936|10|17}} | CEJL I, CW X | Review of Zest of Life by Johann Wöller, translated from the Danish by Claude Napier and I Took Off My Tie by Hugh Massingham, published in Time and Tide |
| Treasure And Travel|"Treasure and Travel"}} | format=dmy|1936|7|11}} | CW X | Review of Treasure Trek by James Stead, Sun on Summer Seas by Major S. E. G. Ponder and Don Gypsy by Walter Starkie, published in Time and Tide |
| Trials in Burma by Maurice Collis | format=dmy|1938|3|9}} | CEJL I, OP | Trials in Burma by Maurice Collispublished unsigned in The Listener (9 March 1938) p. 534.[148][23]{{refn>group=note|name=ListenerAnon}} |
| True Pattern Of H. G. Wells|"The True Pattern of H. G. Wells"}} | format=dmy|1946|8|14}} | LO | Obituary for H. G. Wells published in Manchester Evening News |
| Two Franco Apologists|"Two Franco Apologists"}} | format=dmy|1938|11|24}} | CW XI, OS | Review of The Church in Spain, 1737–1937 by E. Allison Peers and Crusade in Spain by Eoin O'Duffy, published in The New English Weekly[150] |
| Two Glimpses Of The Moon|"Two Glimpses of the Moon"}} | format=dmy|1941|1|18}} | – | Published in New Statesman and Nation |
| Uncertain Fate Of Displaced Persons|"Uncertain Fate of Displaced Persons"}} | format=dmy|1945|6|10}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Unemployment In England|"Unemployment in England"}} | format=dmy|1928|12}} | – | Published in French in Progrès Civique, between December 1928 and May 1929 |
| {{sort>Unquiet Grave|The Unquiet Grave|The Unquiet Grave (book)}} by Palinurus | format=dmy|1945|1|14}} | CEJL III, EL, OY | Book review published in The Observer |
| Utmost Edge|"Utmost Edge"}} | format=dmy|1944|2|27}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Vernon Murders|"The Vernon Murders"}} | 1916|format=hide}}{{nowrap|c. 1916–1918}} | CW X | Short story, manuscript, 32 pp.[83][152] |
| Vessel Of Wrath|"Vessel of Wrath"}} | format=dmy|1944|5|21}} | CW XVI, EL, OY | Review of {{'}}42 to '44: A Contemporary Memoir Upon Human Behaviour During the Crisis of the World Revolution by H. G. Wells, published in The Observer No. 7982 (21 May 1944), p. 3[153] |
| Victory or Vested Interest? | format=dmy|1942|5|15}} | – | Published by The Labour Book Service, with Orwell's "Culture and Democracy" (made up of the pieces "Fascism and Democracy" and "Patriots and Revolutionaries") |
| {{sort>Voice 1|Voice #1}} | format=dmy|1942|8|11}} | WB | The initial issue of Orwell's poetry magazine with readings by Mulk Raj Anand, John Atkins, William Empson, Vida Hope, and Herbert Read. |
| {{sort>Voice 2|Voice #2}} | format=dmy|1942|9|8}} | WB | Readings by Edmund Blunden, William Empson, Godfrey Kenton, and Herbert Read. |
| {{sort>Voice 3|Voice #3}} | format=dmy|1942|10|6}} | WB | Readings by Mulk Raj Anand, William Empson, Herbert Read, and Stephen Spender. |
| {{sort>Voice 4|Voice #4}} | format=dmy|1942|11|3}} | WB | Readings by Venu Chitale, John Atkins, Vida Hope, Edmund Blunden, Godfrey Kenton, Mulk Raj Anand, William Empson, Una Marson, Herbert Read, and Stephen Spender. |
| {{sort>Voice 5|Voice #5}} | format=dmy|1942|12}} | – | This issue has not been recovered. |
| {{sort>Voice 6|Voice #6}} | format=dmy|1942|12|29}} | WB | Readings by Venu Chitale, William Empson, and Herbert Read. |
| Wall Game|"Wall Game"}} | format=dmy|1919|11|29}} | CW X | College Days No. 3, p. 78, probably by Orwell[15][155]{{refn>group=note|name=CollegeDays}} |
| Walls Have Mouths by W. F. R. Macartney, with Prologue, Epilogue and Comments on the Chapters by Compton Mackenzie | format=dmy|1936|11}} | EL, OE | Book review published in The Adelphi |
| Wandering Star|"Wandering Star"}} | format=dmy|1943|12|19}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| War Commentary 01|"War Commentary" #1}} | format=dmy|1941|12|20}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 02|"War Commentary" #2}} | format=dmy|1942|1|3}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 03|"War Commentary" #3}} | format=dmy|1942|1|10}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 04|"War Commentary" #4}} | format=dmy|1942|1|17}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 05|"War Commentary" #5}} | format=dmy|1942|1|24}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 06|"War Commentary" #6}} | format=dmy|1942|1|31}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 07|"War Commentary" #7}} | format=dmy|1942|2|7}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 08|"War Commentary" #8}} | format=dmy|1942|2|14}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 09|"War Commentary" #9}} | format=dmy|1942|2|21}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 10|"War Commentary" #10}} | format=dmy|1942|2|28}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 11|"War Commentary" #11}} | format=dmy|1942|3|14}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 12|"War Commentary" #12}} | format=dmy|1942|3|21}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 13|"War Commentary" #13}} | format=dmy|1942|3|28}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 14|"War Commentary" #14}} | format=dmy|1942|4|4}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 15|"War Commentary" #15}} | format=dmy|1942|4|18}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 16|"War Commentary" #16}} | format=dmy|1942|4|25}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 17|"War Commentary" #17}} | format=dmy|1942|5|2}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 18|"War Commentary" #18}} | format=dmy|1942|5|9}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 19|"War Commentary" #19}} | format=dmy|1942|5|16}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 20|"War Commentary" #20}} | format=dmy|1942|5|23}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 21|"War Commentary" #21}} | format=dmy|1942|6|6}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 22|"War Commentary" #22}} | format=dmy|1942|6|13}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 23|"War Commentary" #23}} | format=dmy|1942|7|11}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 24|"War Commentary" #24}} | format=dmy|1942|7|18}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 25|"War Commentary" #25}} | format=dmy|1942|7|25}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 26|"War Commentary" #26}} | format=dmy|1942|8|1}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 27|"War Commentary" #27}} | format=dmy|1942|8|8}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 28|"War Commentary" #28}} | format=dmy|1942|8|15}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 29|"War Commentary" #29}} | format=dmy|1942|8|22}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 30|"War Commentary" #30}} | format=dmy|1942|8|29}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 31|"War Commentary" #31}} | format=dmy|1942|9|5}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 32|"War Commentary" #32}} | format=dmy|1942|9|12}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 33|"War Commentary" #33}} | format=dmy|1942|9|19}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 34|"War Commentary" #34}} | format=dmy|1942|9|26}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 35|"War Commentary" #35}} | format=dmy|1942|10|3}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 36|"War Commentary" #36}} | format=dmy|1942|10|10}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 37|"War Commentary" #37}} | format=dmy|1942|10|17}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 38|"War Commentary" #38}} | format=dmy|1942|10|24}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 39|"War Commentary" #39}} | format=dmy|1942|10|31}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 40|"War Commentary" #40}} | format=dmy|1942|11|7}} | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 41|"War Commentary" #41}} | format=dmy|1942|11|28}} | WC | News reporting read and written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 42|"War Commentary" #42}} | format=dmy|1942|12|12}} | WC | News reporting read and written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 43|"War Commentary" #43}} | format=dmy|1942|12|17}} | WC | News reporting read and written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 44|"War Commentary" #44}} | format=dmy|1942|12|26}} | WC | News reporting read and written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 45|"War Commentary" #45}} | format=dmy|1943|1|9}} | WC | News reporting read and written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 46|"War Commentary" #46}} | format=dmy|1943|1|16}} | WC | News reporting read and written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 47|"War Commentary" #47}} | format=dmy|1943|2|20}} | WC | News reporting read and written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 48|"War Commentary" #48}} | format=dmy|1943|2|27}} | WC | News reporting read and written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War Commentary 49|"War Commentary" #49}} | format=dmy|1943|3|13}} | WC | News reporting read and written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| War In Burma|"War in Burma"}} | format=dmy|1943|8|14}} | – | Published in New Statesman and Nation |
| War-Time Diary A|"War-Time Diary" A}} | format=dmy|1940|5|28}} | CEJL II | Excerpts of Orwell's diary, 28 May 1940 – 28 August 1941 |
| War-Time Diary B|"War-Time Diary" B}} | format=dmy|1942|3|14}} | CEJL II | Excerpts of Orwell's diary, 14 March – 15 November 1942 |
| War-Time Diary C|"War-Time Diary" C}} | format=dmy|1939}} | FUF | Excerpts of Orwell's diary, 1939–1942 |
| Wavell On Hilicon|"Wavell on Hilicon"}} | format=dmy|1944|3|12}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Way Of A Poet|"The Way of a Poet"}} | format=dmy|1943|4|17}} | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| We Are Observed!|"We Are Observed!"}} | format=dmy|1940|3|2}} | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| Wells, Hitler And The World State|"Wells, Hitler and The World State"}} | format=dmy|1941|8}} | CrE, ColE, CEJL II, EL, AAIP | Published in Horizon |
| What Is Science?|"What Is Science?"}} | format=dmy|1945|10|26}} | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| What Is Socialism|"What Is Socialism"}} | format=dmy|1946|1|31}} | EL | Published as part one of a series (with "The Intellectual Revolt", "The Christian Reformers", and "Pacifism and Progress") in Manchester Evening News |
| Where To Go – But How?|"Where to Go – But How?"}} | format=dmy|1943|8|15}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| White Man's Burden|"The White Man's Burden"}} | format=dmy|1919|11|29}} | CW X | College Days No. 3, pp. 93–95; probably by Orwell; illustrations probably by Robert Paton Longden[15][157]{{refn>group=note|name=CollegeDays}} |
| Who Are The War Criminals?|"Who Are the War Criminals?"}} | format=dmy|1943|10|22}} | CEJL II | Published in Tribune |
| Why I Join the I.L.P.|"Why I Join the I.L.P."}} | format=dmy|1938|6|24}} | CEJL I, CW XI, EL, OP | The New Leader (24 June 1938) p. 4.[158][19]{{refn>group=note|Reprinted as "Why I Joined the Independent Labour Party" in The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Vol. I.[158]}} |
| Why I Write|"Why I Write"}} | format=dmy|1946|6}} | SSWtJ, EYE, CoE, OR, ColE, DotEM, CEJL I, EL, FUF, WIW | Published in Gangrel, number four, Summer 1946 |
| Wilde's Utopia|"Wilde's Utopia"}} | format=dmy|1948|5|9}} | CEJL IV, EL, OY | Book review of The Soul of Man Under Socialism by Oscar Wilde published in The Observer |
| Will Freedom Die With Capitalism?|"Will Freedom Die with Capitalism?"}} | format=dmy|1941|4}} | – | Published in Left News |
| Will Gypsies Survive?|"Will Gypsies Survive?"}} | format=dmy|1938|12}} | CW XI, EL, OD | Review of Gypsies by Martin Block translated by Barbara Kuczynski and Duncan Taylor, published in The Adelphi[161] |
| Wishful Thinking And The Light Novel|"Wishful Thinking and the Light Novel"}} | format=dmy|1940|9|19}} | – | Published in New Statesman and Nation |
| Words And Henry Miller|"Words and Henry Miller"}} | format=dmy|1946|2|22}} | CEJL IV, EL | Book review of The Cosmological Eye by Henry Miller, published in Tribune |
| World Affairs, 1945|"World Affairs, 1945"}} | format=dmy|1945}} | – | Published in Junior |
| Wounded Cricketer (Not By Walt Whitman)|"The Wounded Cricketer (Not by Walt Whitman)"}} | format=dmy|1918|6|3}} | CW X | The Election Times No. 4, p. 61. Reprinted in College Days No. 5 (9 July 1920) p. 136, also unsigned.[15]{{refn>group=note|name=ElectionTimes}}{{refn|group=note|name=CollegeDays}} |
| Writer's Dilemma|"The Writer's Dilemma"}} | format=dmy|1948|8|22}} | OY | Published in The Observer |
| Writers And Leviathan|"Writers and Leviathan"}} | format=dmy|1948|6}} | SSWtJ, EYE, CEJL IV, EL, AAIP | Published in Politics and Letters, Summer 1948 |
| You And The Atom Bomb|"You and the Atom Bomb"}} | format=dmy|1945|10|19}} | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| Your Questions Answered | format=dmy|1943|12|2}} | CEJL I, OE | This BBC Radio series featured public figures answering questions from listeners; Orwell answered "How long is the Wigan Pier and what is the Wigan Pier?" |
| Youthful Mariner (Extract)|"The Youthful Mariner (Extract)"}} | format=dmy|1920|7|9}} | CW X | College Days No. 5, pp. 156, 158; "(Extract)" is part of the original title. The last two stanzas possibly first printed as part of The Election Times No. 4[39][164]{{refn>group=note|name=ElectionTimes}}{{refn|group=note|name=CollegeDays}} |
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