1946 Critical Essays

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

First Edition.

Presented in the scarce price-clipped dust wrapper. 

This is a collection of essays by George Orwell which was published the year after his wife Eileen O'Shaughnessy's death. These essays are predominantly wartime pieces that cover a variety of topics, including popular culture as well as literature. 

Contents include 'Charles Dickens', 'Boys' Weeklies', 'Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali', and 'Wells, Hitler and the World State', which was a response to H. G. Wells' 'Guide to the New World'. This work was considered by the author himself to be one of his most important works. 

George Orwell (1903-1950), also known as Eric Arthur Blair, was an English novelist, essayist, and journalist. He is best known for works such as 'Animal Farm' as well as 'Nineteen Eighty-Four', with his many novels remaining influential within popular and political culture. 

One page of publisher's adverts to the rear of text. 

Prior owner's ink inscription to front paste down, belonging to Jay Hayward and dated 1946.

Collated, complete.