The Penguin Essays of George Orwell George Orwell
This anthology includes George Orwell's most famous pieces, among them My Country Right or Left, Decline of the English Murder and How the Poor Die. Orwell writes on a series of wide-ranging topics, from the Spanish Civil War to a defence of English cooking, from Charles Dickens to Rudyard Kipling, P.G. Wodehouse, book reviewing and the nature of socialism.