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Volume 18 of The Complete Works of George Orwell

Journalism took a heavy toll on Orwell in the first months of 1946. Despite this unremitting pressure, he produced a major sequence of articles on ''The Intellectual Revolt''. He wrote one of his finest short essays, ''Some Thoughts on the Common Toad''. He reviewed Zamyatin''s We, wrote two radio plays for the BBC, The Voyage of the Beagle, and a version of ''Red Riding Hood'' for Children''s Hour, and a pamphlet for the British Council, British Cookery; these three are printed here for the first time.

The complex history of ''How the Poor Die'' is unravelled, as is the problem posed by his passports giving his date of birth incorrectly, something that would prove significant in the writing of Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell renewed contact with Yvonne Davet; he corresponded with Ihor Szewczenko; he tried to get Victor Serge''s memoirs published in English and, with Arthur Koestle

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      Publisher Vintage Publishing
      Published 9 June 2001
      ISBN-13 9780436205569
      978-0436205569
      ISBN-10 0436205564

      Description

      Volume 18 of The Complete Works of George Orwell

      Journalism took a heavy toll on Orwell in the first months of 1946. Despite this unremitting pressure, he produced a major sequence of articles on ''The Intellectual Revolt''. He wrote one of his finest short essays, ''Some Thoughts on the Common Toad''. He reviewed Zamyatin''s We, wrote two radio plays for the BBC, The Voyage of the Beagle, and a version of ''Red Riding Hood'' for Children''s Hour, and a pamphlet for the British Council, British Cookery; these three are printed here for the first time.

      The complex history of ''How the Poor Die'' is unravelled, as is the problem posed by his passports giving his date of birth incorrectly, something that would prove significant in the writing of Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell renewed contact with Yvonne Davet; he corresponded with Ihor Szewczenko; he tried to get Victor Serge''s memoirs published in English and, with Arthur Koestle

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