CONTENTS
Acknowledgements = ⅸ
A Note on the Editing = xiii
1. The English People = 1
2. In Defence of English Cooking = 38
3. A Nuice Cup of Tea = 40
4. Review of The Pub and the People by Mass Observation = 43
5 "The Moon under Water" = 44
6. Review of Cricket Country by Edmund Blunden = 47
1943
7. Letter to Philip Rahv = 53
8. As I Please = 54
9. As I Please = 58
10. Review of Collected Poems by W.H.Davies = 61
11. As I Please = 63
12. As I Please = 65
1944
13. As I Please = 71
14. As I Please = 73
15. London Letter to Partisan Review = 74
16. As I Please = 82
17. As I Please = 83
18. As I Please = 87
19. As I Please = 89
20 A Hundred Up = 93
21. Letter to Gleb Struve = 95
22. As I Please = 96
23. Review of The Edge of the Abyss by Affred Noyes = 99
24. As I Please = 101
25 Letter to Roy Fuller = 104
26. As I Please = 105
27. As I Please = 108
28. As I Please = 111
29. As I Please = 114
30. Review of The Road to Serfdom by F.A.Hayek, etc = 117
31. As I Please = 119
32. London Letter to Partisan Review = 123
33. As I Please = 128
34. As I Please = 131
35. Propaganda and Demotic Speech = 135
36. Letter to Philip Rahv = 141
37. As I Please = 143
38. As I Please = 145
39. Letter to H.J.Willmett = 148
40. As I Please = 150
41. As I Please = 153
42. Benfit of Clergy : Some Notes on Salvador Dail = 156
43. As I Please = 165
44. As I Please = 168
45. As I Please = 170
46. As I Please = 172
47. Letter to T.S.Eliot = 176
48. As I Please = 176
49. As I Please = 178
50. As I Please = 181
51. Letter to John Middleton Murry = 184
52. Letter to Rayner Heppenstall = 185
53. Letter to Leonard Moore = 186
54. As I Please = 187
55. Letter to John Middleton Murry = 190
56. London Letter to Partisan Review = 191
57. As I Please = 196
58. As I Please = 199
59. Letter to John Middleton Murry = 202
60. As I Please = 204
61. Letter to John Middleton Murry = 206
62. As I Please = 207
63. As I Please = 210
64. Raffles and Miss Blandish = 212
65. As I Please = 224
66. As I Please = 228
67. As I Please = 231
68. Arthur Koestler = 234
69. Tobias Smollett = 244
70. As I Please = 248
71. As I Please = 252
72. A Controversy : Orwell : Agate = 255
73. As I Please = 260
74. As I Please = 263
75. As I Please = 266
76. Review of The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith = 268
77. As I Please = 273
78. As I Please = 276
79. As I Please = 279
80. Funny, But Not Vulgar = 283
81. As I Please = 288
82. Letter to Frank Barber = 291
83. London Letter to Partisan Review = 293
84. Oysters and Brown Stout = 299
85. As I Please = 302
1945
86. A New Year Message = 309
87. As I Please = 313
88. As I Please = 316
89. Review of The Unquiet GTrave by "palinurus" = 318
90. As I Please = 320
91. As I Please = 323
92. As I Please = 326
93. As I Please = 329
94. Antismitism in Britain = 332
95. In Defence of P.G.Wodehouse = 341
96. As I Please = 355
97. Letter to Leonard Moore = 358
98. Letter to Roger Senhouse = 358
99. Letter to Anthony Powell = 359
100. Notes to Lydia Jackson = 360
101. Notes on Nationalism = 361
102. London Letter to Partisan Revgiew = 380
103. Letter to F.J.Warburg = 386
104. Review of The Nigger of the Narcissus etc by Joseph Conrad = 387
105. Unpublished Letter to the Editor of Tribune = 389
106. Letter to Leonard Moore = 392
107. London Letter to Partisan Review = 393
108. Letter to Herbert Read = 400
109. Letter to Frank Barber = 402
110. Preface to the Ukrainian Edition of Animal Farm = 402
Appendix Ⅰ : Books by or containing by George Orwell = 407
Appendix Ⅱ : Chronology = 409
Index = 413