Orwell pictured by the National Union of Journalists in 1933 |
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| ↙Collections | 37 | |
| ↙Pamphlets | 7 | |
| ↙Poems | 17 | |
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| ↙Complete works | 646 | |
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The bibliography of George Orwell includes journalism, essays, books, and fiction written by the British writer Eric Arthur Blair, pen name George Orwell (1903–1950). Orwell was a prolific writer on topics related to contemporary English society and literary criticism, whom British newsweekly The Economist in 2008 declared "perhaps the 20th century's best chronicler of English culture."[1] His non-fiction cultural and political criticism constitutes the majority of his work, but Orwell also wrote in several genres of fictional literature. Orwell is best remembered for his political commentary as a left-wing anti-totalitarian—as he explained in the 1946 essay "Why I Write", "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 writing 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 as a novelist 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.
Only two compilations of Orwell's body of work were published in his lifetime, but since his death, over a dozen collected editions have been compiled. Two attempts have been made to comprehensively collect the entirety of his miscellany: 1968's Complete Essays, Journalism and Letters constituted four volumes which were co-edited by Ian Angus and Orwell's widow Sonia Brownell and Peter Davison's 20-volume The Complete Works of George Orwell began publication in the mid-1980s. The latter also included a 2007 addendum entitled The Lost Orwell. 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.
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Orwell composed six novels—Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Coming Up for Air, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Most of these were semi-autobiographical: Burmese Days was inspired by his period working as an imperial policeman and is fictionalized; 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 biographical essay of Orwell's experiences with poverty; and Homage to Catalonia recounts his experiences volunteering to fight fascism in anarchist Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War with the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification.
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.
Starting with 1941's The Lion and the Unicorn, several of his longer essays took the form of pamphlets and were published and distributed independently.
While Orwell was not known for his poetry, he did compose several verses which have survived, including many written during his school days:[6]
In addition to the pamphlets British Pamphleteers Volume 1: From the 16th Century the 18th Century and Talking to India, by E. M. Forster, Richie Calder, Cedric Dover, Hsiao Ch'ien and Others: A Selection of English Language Broadcasts to India, Orwell edited two newspapers during his Eton years—College Days/The Colleger (1917) and Election Times (1917–1921). While working for the BBC, he collected six editions of a poetry magazine named Voice which were broadcast by Orwell, Mulk Raj Anand, John Atkins, Edmund Blunden, Venu Chitale, William Empson, Vida Hope, Godfrey Kenton, Una Marson, Herbert Read, and Stephen Spender. The magazine was published and distributed to the readers before being broadcast by the BBC. Issue five has not been recovered and was consequently excluded from A. J. West's collection of BBC transcripts.
Two essay collections were published during Orwell's lifetime—Inside the Whale and Other Essays in 1940 and Critical Essays in 1946 (the latter published in the United States as Dickens, Dali, and Others in 1958.) His publisher followed up these anthologies with Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays in 1950, England Your England and Other Essays in 1953—which was revised as Such, Such Were the Joys—and Collected Essays in 1961. The first significant publications in the United States were Doubleday's A Collection of Essays by George Orwell from 1954, 1956's The Orwell Reader, Fiction, Essays, and Reportage from Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, and Penguin's Selected Essays in 1957; re-released in 1962 with the title Inside the Whale and Other Essays and in abridged form as Why I Write in 2005 as a part of the Great Ideas series. In the aforementioned series, Penguin also published the short collections Books v. Cigarettes (2008), Some Thoughts on the Common Toad (2010), and Decline of the English Murder (2009). The later does not contain the same texts as Decline of the English Murder and Other Essays, published by Penguin in association with Secker & Warburg in 1965.
In 1976 Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd in association with Octopus Books published The Complete Novels, this edition was latter republished by Penguin Books in 1983, and reprinted in Penguin Classics 2000. Since the publication of Davison's corrected critical edition, John Carey's thorough Essays was released on 15 October 2002, as a part of the Everyman's Library and George Packer edited two collections for Houghton Mifflin, released on 13 October 2008—All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays and Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays.
Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus edited a four volume collection of Orwells writings, The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell , divided into four volumes:
The Complete Works of George Orwell is a twenty-volume series, with the first nine being devoted to the books and novels and the final eleven volumes entitled:
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 The Daily Telegraph, Tom Rosenthal called it "...a treasure trove of new discoveries." [7] Lost Orwell also received favourable reviews in The Sunday Times[8] and Private Eye. In The Spectator Philip Hesner wrote a mostly favourable review, but added "I was quite pleased to have read this book, and Orwell's alluring personality has a knack of shining out of even the most banal sentence [...] I wouldn't necessarily recommend buying it, though."[9] In 2011, Davison's selection of the letters and journal entries were published as George Orwell: A Life in Letters and Diaries by Harvill Secker.[10]
After his first publication—the poem "Awake! Young Men of England", published in 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 a radio dramas.)
His production of fiction was not as prolific—he wrote a few short stories which were unpublished, and claimed to have written two entire novels in French while living in Paris,[11] 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 0151660344.) In addition, Orwell produced several pieces while working at the BBC as a correspondent. Some were composed 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.
| Title | Date | Collected | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| '42 to '44: A Contemporary Memoir Upon Human Behaviour During the Crisis of the World Revolution by H. G. Wells | 21 May 1944 | EL | Book review published in The Observer |
| "About It and About" | 12 August 1939 | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| Alexander Pope by Edith Sitwell, The Course of classicism by Sherard Vines | June 1930 | CEJL I | Book reviews published in New Adelphi, June/August 1930 credited to "E. A. Blair" |
| All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays | 13 October 2008 | – | 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" | 7 May 1944 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Allies Facing Food Crisis in Germany" | 15 April 1945 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "An American Critic" | 10 May 1942 | – | Published in The Observer |
| Angel Pavement by J. B. Priestley | October 1930 | CEJL I | Book review published in The Adelphi, credited to "E. A. Blair" |
| Animal Farm | 17 August 1945 | CN | 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" | April 1945 | SSWtJ, EYE, ColE, CEJL III, EL | Published in Contemporary Jewish Record |
| "Are Books Too Dear?" | 1 June 1944 | EL | Published in Manchester Evening News |
| "The Art of Donald McGill" | September 1941 | CrE, CoE, ColE, DotEM, CEJL II, EL, AAIP | Published in Horizon |
| "Arthur Koestler" | 11 September 1944 | CrE, ColE, CEJL III, EL | Unpublished typescript |
| "As I Please" #1 | 3 December 1943 | CEJL III, EL, FUF | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #2 | 10 December 1943 | EL, FUF | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #3 | 17 December 1943 | CEJL III, EL, FUF | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #4 | 24 December 1943 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #5 | 31 December 1943 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #6 | 7 January 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #7 | 14 January 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #8 | 21 January 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #9 | 28 January 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #10 | 4 February 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #11 | 11 February 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #12 | 18 February 1944 | EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #13 | 25 February 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #14 | 3 March 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #15 | 10 March 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #16 | 17 March 1944 | CEJL III, EL, FUF | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #17 | 24 March 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #18 | 31 March 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #19 | 7 April 1944 | EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #20 | 14 April 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #21 | 21 April 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #22 | 28 April 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #23 | 5 May 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #24 | 12 May 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #25 | 19 May 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #26 | 26 May 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #27 | 2 June 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #28 | 9 June 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #29 | 16 June 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #30 | 23 June 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #31 | 30 June 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #32 | 7 July 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #33 | 14 July 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #34 | 21 July 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #35 | 28 July 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #36 | 4 August 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #37 | 11 August 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #38 | 18 August 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #39 | 25 August 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #40 | 1 September 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #41 | 8 September 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #42 | 15 September 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #43 | 6 October 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #44 | 13 October 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #45 | 20 October 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #46 | 27 October 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #47 | 3 November 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #48 | 17 November 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #49 | 24 November 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #50 | 1 December 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #51 | 8 December 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #52 | 29 December 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #53 | 5 January 1945 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #54 | 12 January 1945 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #55 | 19 January 1945 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #56 | 26 January 1945 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #57 | 2 February 1945 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #58 | 9 February 1945 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #59 | 16 February 1945 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #60 | 8 November 1946 | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #61 | 15 November 1946 | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #62 | 22 November 1946 | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #63 | 29 November 1946 | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #64 | 6 December 1946 | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #65 | 13 December 1946 | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #66 | 20 December 1946 | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #67 | 27 December 1946 | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #68 | 3 January 1947 | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #69 | 17 January 1947 | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #70 | 24 January 1947 | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #71 | 31 January 1947 | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #72 | 7 February 1947 | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #73 | 14 February 1947 | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #74 | 21 February 1947 | EL | Published in Manchester Evening News for Tribune |
| "As I Please" #75A | 27 February 1947 | EL | Published in Daily Herald for Tribune |
| "As I Please" #75B | 28 February 1947 | EL | Published in Manchester Evening News for Tribune |
| "As I Please" #76 | 7 March 1947 | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #77 | 14 March 1947 | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #78 | 21 March 1947 | EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #79 | 28 March 1947 | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As I Please" #80 | 4 April 1947 | EL | Published in Tribune |
| "As One Non-Combatant to Another" | 18 June 1943 | 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 |
| Assignment in Utopia by Eugene Lyons | 9 June 1938 | CEJL I, EL | Book review published in New English Weekly |
| "At School and on Holiday" | 7 December 1940 | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| The Atlantic Islands by Kenneth Williamson | 29 February 1948 | EL | Book review published in The Observer |
| "Authentic Socialism" | 16 June 1938 | – | Published in New English Weekly |
| Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War | 3 August 1937 | EL | Unpublished response to a questionnaire sent out by Left Review, written 3–7 August 1937. |
| "Autobiographical Note" | 17 April 1940 | 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" | 2 October 1914 | – | Poem published in Henley and South Oxfordshire Standard, credited to "Eric Blair" |
| "Back to the Land" | 3 September 1944 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Back to the Twenties" | 21 October 1937 | – | Published in New English Weekly |
| "Background of French Morocco" | 20 November 1942 | – | Published in Tribune |
| "Bad Climates Are Best" | 2 February 1946 | EL | Published in Evening Standard |
| "Ballade" | June 1929 | – | Composed prior to the summer of 1929, this poem has not survived |
| "Banish This Uniform" | 22 December 1945 | EL | Published in Evening Standard |
| Barbarians and Philistines: Democracy and the Public Schools by T. C. Worsley | 14 September 1940 | EL | Book review published in Time and Tide |
| "Bare Christmas for the Children" | 1 December 1945 | EL | Published in Evening Standard |
| Bastard Death by Michael Fraenkel and Fast One by Paul Cain | 23 April 1936 | CEJL I | Book reviews published in New English Weekly |
| "Battle Ground" | 16 December 1945 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Bavarian Peasants Ignore The War" | 22 April 1945 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "The Bayonet in War" | 21 March 1941 | – | Published in The Spectator |
| BBC Internal Memorandum | 15 October 1942 | CEJL II | Memo written by Orwell for his boss at BBC Eastern Service outlining his demands for working on-air |
| "Beggars in London" | 12 January 1929 | – | Published French in Progrès Civique |
| "Behind the Ranges" | 11 June 1944 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali" | 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" | 22 January 1943 | WB | Broadcast by the BBC |
| "The Best Novels of 1949: Some Personal Choices" | 1 January 1950 | LO | A list of authors' favourite books of 1949 published in The Observer |
| Betrayal of the Left: An Examination & Refutation of Communist Policy from October 1939 to January 1941 with Suggestions for an Alternative and an Epilogue on Political Morality | 3 March 1941 | – | Published by the Left Book Club, edited by Victor Gollancz, with Orwell's "Fascism and Democracy" and "Patriots and Revolutionaries" |
| 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 | 24 September 1936 | CEJL I | Book reviews published in New English Weekly |
| "The Book Racket" | September 1939 | – | Published in The Adelphi |
| "Books v. Cigarettes" | 8 February 1946 | SaE, CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "Bookshop Memories" | November 1936 | CEJL I, EL, FUF | Published in Fortnightly Review |
| "Boys' Weeklies" | 11 March 1940 | ItW, CrE, CoE, SE, ColE, CEJL I, AAIP | 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" | October 1948 | – | Published in Commentary |
| "British Cookery" | 1946 | – | Article with recipes commissioned by the British Council; due to rationing, it was not published |
| "The British Crisis" | June 1942 | – | Published in Partisan Review, June/July 1942. |
| "The British General Election" | November 1945 | – | Published in Commentary |
| "Britain's Left-Wing Press" | June 1948 | EL | Published in The Progressive |
| British Pamphleteers Volume 1: From the 16th Century the 18th Century | April 1948 | – | 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" | 22 January 1942 | WB | Broadcast by the BBC |
| The British Way in Warfare by Basil Liddell Hart | 21 November 1942 | CEJL II | Book review published in New Statesman and Nation |
| The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett | 7 October 1945 | EL | Published in The Observer |
| "Burma" | December 1928 | – | Published in French in Progrès Civique, between December 1928 and May 1929 |
| "Burma" | 22 April 1943 | – | Published in Tribune |
| "Burma Roads" | 1 October 1944 | – | Published in The Observer |
| Burmese Days | 25 October 1935 | OR (excerpts) CN | 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. |
| "Burnham's View of the Contemporary World Struggle" | 29 March 1947 | CEJL IV, EL | Published in The New Leader |
| Burnt Norton, The Dry Salvages, and East Coker by T. S. Eliot | October 1942 | CEJL II | Poetry reviews published in Poetry London, October/November 1942 |
| "But Are We Really Ruder? No" | 26 January 1946 | EL | Published as a Saturday Essay in Evening Standard |
| "By-Words" | 16 November 1940 | – | Published in New Statesman and Nation |
| Byron and the Need of Fatality by Charles du Bos, translated by Ehtel Colburn Mayne | September 1932 | CEJL I | Book review published in Adelphi, credited to "Eric Blair" |
| The Calf of Paper by Sholem Asch and Midnight by Julien Green | 12 November 1936 | CEJL I | Book reviews published in New English Weekly |
| Caliban Shrieks by Jack Hilton | May 1935 | CEJL I, EL | Book review published in The Adelphi, first writing credited to "George Orwell" |
| "Can Socialists Be Happy?" | 24 December 1943 | EL, AAIP | Published in Tribune under the authorship of "John Freeman" (possibly in reference to British politicians of the same name) and later attributed to Orwell by Davison.[nb 1] |
| "The Case for the Open Fire" | 8 December 1945 | EL, FUF | Published in Evening Standard |
| "Carlyle" | March 1931 | – | Published in The Adelphi |
| "Catastrophic Gradualism" | November 1943 | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Common Wealth Review |
| "A Catholic Confronts Communism" | 27 January 1939 | – | Published in Peace News |
| "Censorship in England" | 6 October 1928 | – | Published in French as "La censure en angleterre" in Monde |
| "Charles Dickens" | 11 March 1940 | ItW, CrE, CoE, ColE, DotEM, CEJL I, EL, AAIP | First published in Inside the Whale and Other Essays |
| "Charles Reade" | 17 August 1940 | CEJL II | Published in New Statesman and Nation |
| "Charles the Great" | 2 September 1945 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "The Children Who Cannot Be Billeted" | 13 August 1944 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Chinese Miracles" | 6 August 1944 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Chosen People" | 30 January 1944 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "The Christian Reformers" | 7 February 1946 | EL | Published as part one of a series (with "What Is Socialism?", "The Intellectual Revolt", and "Pacifism and Progress") in Manchester Evening News |
| The Civil War in Spain by Frank Jellinek | 8 July 1938 | CEJL I, EL | Book review published in The New Leader |
| "Classics Reviewed: The Martyrdom of Man" | 15 March 1946 | CEJL IV, EL | Book review of the book by William Winwood Reade published in Tribune |
| A Clergyman's Daughter | 11 March 1935 | OR (excerpts) CN | 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" | 11 March 1945 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Clink" | August 1932 | CEJL I, EL, FUF | Unpublished |
| The Clue of History by John Macmurray | February 1939 | EL | Book review published in The Adelphi |
| A Coat of Many Colours: Occasional Essays by Herbert Reade by Herbert Taylor Reade | December 1945 | CEJL IV | Published in Poetry Quarterly, Winter 1945 |
| Collected Essays | 1961 | – | Published by Secker and Warburg in London |
| The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell – Volume 1: An Age Like This 1920–1940 | 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 |
| The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell – Volume 2: My Country Right or Left 1940–1943 | 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 |
| The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell – Volume 3: As I Please, 1943–1945 | 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 |
| The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell – Volume 4: In Front of Your Nose, 1945–1950 | 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 | 19 December 1943 | CEJL III, EL | Book review published in The Observer |
| A Collection of Essays by George Orwell | 1954 | – | Published by Doubleday and Company in Garden City in 1954 |
| College Days/The Colleger | 1917 | – | School newspaper at Eton College, where Orwell (as Eric Blair) wrote and edited from 1917–1921 |
| Coming Up for Air | 12 June 1939 | OR (excerpts) CN | Published by Victor Gollancz, Ltd in London on 12 June 1939. |
| "Common Lodging Houses" | 3 September 1932 | CEJL I, EL | Published in The New Statesman and Nation, credited to "Eric Blair" |
| Communism and Man by F. J. Sheed | 27 January 1939 | CEJL I, EL | Book review published in Peace News |
| The Communist International by Franz Borkenau | 22 September 1938 | CEJL I | Book review published in New English Weekly |
| The Complete Works of George Orwell – Volume 10: A Kind of Compulsion: 1903–1936 | 1986 | – | Published by Secker and Warburg in 1986, later reprinted in 1999; volumes one through nine are reprinting of Orwell's books and novels |
| The Complete Works of George Orwell – Volume 11: Facing Unpleasant Facts: 1937–1939 | 1986 | – | Published by Secker and Warburg in 1986, later reprinted in 1999; volumes one through nine are reprinting of Orwell's books and novels |
| The Complete Works of George Orwell – Volume 12: A Patriot After All: 1940–1941 | 1986 | – | Published by Secker and Warburg in 1986, later reprinted in 1999; volumes one through nine are reprinting of Orwell's books and novels |
| The Complete Works of George Orwell – Volume 13: All Propaganda Is Lies: 1941–1942 | 1986 | – | Published by Secker and Warburg in 1986, later reprinted in 1999; volumes one through nine are reprinting of Orwell's books and novels |
| The Complete Works of George Orwell – Volume 14: Keeping Our Little Corner Clean: 1942–1943 | 1986 | – | Published by Secker and Warburg in 1986, later reprinted in 1999; volumes one through nine are reprinting of Orwell's books and novels |
| The Complete Works of George Orwell – Volume 15: Two Wasted Years: 1943 | 1986 | – | Published by Secker and Warburg in 1986, later reprinted in 1999; volumes one through nine are reprinting of Orwell's books and novels |
| The Complete Works of George Orwell – Volume 16: I Have Tried to Tell the Truth: 1943–1944 | 1986 | – | Published by Secker and Warburg in 1986, later reprinted in 1999; volumes one through nine are reprinting of Orwell's books and novels |
| The Complete Works of George Orwell – Volume 17: I Belong to the Left: 1945 | 1986 | – | Published by Secker and Warburg in 1986, later reprinted in 1999; volumes one through nine are reprinting of Orwell's books and novels |
| The Complete Works of George Orwell – Volume 18: Smothered Under Journalism: 1946 | 1986 | – | Published by Secker and Warburg in 1986, later reprinted in 1999; volumes one through nine are reprinting of Orwell's books and novels |
| The Complete Works of George Orwell – Volume 19: It Is What I Think: 1947–1948 | 1986 | – | Published by Secker and Warburg in 1986, later reprinted in 1999; volumes one through nine are reprinting of Orwell's books and novels |
| The Complete Works of George Orwell – Volume 20: Our Job Is to Make Life Worth Living: 1949–1950 | 1986 | – | Published by Secker and Warburg in 1986, later reprinted in 1999; volumes one through nine are reprinting of Orwell's books and novels |
| "Concerning the Quartier Montparnasse" | June 1929 | – | A series of articles published in French as "Ayant toujours trait au Quartier Montparnasse" written prior to the summer of 1929 and which have not survived |
| "Confessions of a Book Reviewer" | 3 May 1946 | SaE, CEJL IV, EL, AAIP | Published in Tribune |
| "Conrad's Place and Rank in English Letters" | 10 April 1949 | CEJL IV | Published in Wiadomosci |
| "A Controversy: Agate: Orwell" | 21 December 1944 | 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. |
| The Cosmological Eye by Henry Miller | 22 February 1946 | CEJL IV | Book review published in Tribune |
| "The Cost of Letters" | September 1946 | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Horizon, also entitled "Questionnaire: The Cost of Letters" |
| "The Cost of Radio Programmes" | 1 February 1946 | – | Published in Tribune |
| Crainquebille by Anatole France | 11 August 1943 | WB | Adaptation of France's play as a radio drama by Orwell, broadcast by the BBC |
| "Creating Order out of Cologne Chaos" | 25 March 1945 | – | Published in The Observer |
| Cricket Country by Edmund Blunden | 20 April 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Book review published in Manchester Evening News |
| "A Critic Views a Statesman" | 14 May 1949 | – | Published in New Leader |
| Critical Essays | 14 February 1946 | – | 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" | 15 May 1942 | – | Published in Victory or Vested Interest?, made up of "Fascism and Democracy" and "Patriots and Revolutionaries" |
| "Culture and the Classes" | 28 November 1948 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Current Literature: Books in General" | 17 August 1940 | – | Published in New Statesman and Nation |
| "Cycle of Cathay" | 11 November 1945 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "D. H. Lawrence's Short Stories" | 16 November 1945 | – | Published in Tribune |
| "Danger of Separate Occupation Zones" | 20 May 1945 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "In the Darlan Country" | 29 November 1942 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "A Day in the Life of a Tramp" | 5 January 1929 | – | Published in French in Progrès Civique |
| "De Gaulle Intends to Keep Indo-China" | 18 March 1945 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Dear Doktor Goebbels – Your British Friends Are Feeding Fine!" | 23 July 1941 | EL, FUF | Published in Daily Express |
| "Decline of the English Murder" | 15 February 1946 | SaE, OR, DotEM, CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| Decline of the English Murder and Other Essays | 1965 | – | Published by Penguin Group in London |
| "The Defence of Freedom" | 11 October 1948 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Democracy in the British Army" | September 1939 | CEJL I, EL | Published in The Left Forum |
| The Democrat at the Supper Table by Colm Brogan | 10 February 1946 | CEJL IV | Book review published in Observer |
| "Democrats and Dictators" | 17 February 1940 | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| Der Führer by Conred Heiden | 4 January 1945 | EL | Book review published in Manchester Evening News |
| "Desert and Islands" | 21 November 1936 | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| The Development of William Butler Yeats by V. K. Narayan Menon | January 1943 | EL | Book review published in Horizon |
| Diaries | 10 May 2011 | – | Edited by Peter Davison, published in London by Harvill Secker |
| "About It and About" | 12 August 1939 | ||
| "Do Our Colonies Pay?" | 8 March 1946 | – | Published in Tribune |
| Down and Out in Paris and London | 9 January 1933 | OR (excerpts) | Published by Victor Gollancz, Ltd in London on 9 January 1933 and in the United States on 30 June 1933. |
| "Down the Mine" | 8 March 1937 | EYE, SE | First published as part one, chapter two of The Road to Wigan Pier |
| "Down Under" | 14 March 1948 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "A Dressed Man and a Naked Man" | October 1933 | CEJL I | Poem published in The Adelphi, credited to "Eric Blair" |
| Drums Under the Windows by Seán O'Casey | 28 October 1945 | CEJL IV, EL | Book review published in The Observer |
| The Edge of the Abyss by Alfred Noyes | 27 February 1944 | EL | Book review published in The Observer |
| Editorial | May 1946 | CEJL IV | Published in Polemic number three |
| "Edmund Blunden" | 8 January 1943 | WB | An introduction to a talk by Blunden broadcast over the BBC |
| "The Eight Years of War: Spanish Memories" | 16 July 1944 | – | Published in The Observer |
| The Election Times | 1917 | – | School newspaper at Eton College, where Orwell (as Eric Blair) wrote and edited, 1917–1921 |
| The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen | 18 November 1943 | WB | Adaptation of Andersen's short story as a radio drama by Orwell, broadcast by the BBC |
| "The End of Henry Miller" | 4 December 1942 | – | Published in Tribune |
| "England with the Knobs Off" | July 1940 | – | Published in The Adelphi |
| "England Your England" | 19 February 1941 | SSWtJ, EYE, CoE, OR, SE, FUF | First published in The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius |
| England Your England and Other Essays | 1953 | – | Published by Secker and Warburg in London |
| "The English Civil War" | 24 August 1940 | – | Published in New Statesman and Nation |
| "The English People" | March 1944 | CEJL III, EL | 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" | 13 June 1943 | WB | Broadcast by the BBC |
| English Ways by Jack Hilton; with an Introduction by John Middleton Murry and Photographs by J. Dixon Scott | July 1940 | EL | Book review published in The Adelphi |
| "English Writing in Total War" | 14 July 1941 | – | Published in The New Republic |
| "Entre Chien et Loup" | 13 April 1940 | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| "Escape or Escapeism?" | 30 November 1945 | – | Published in Tribune |
| Essays | 15 October 2002 | – | 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 | 5 May 1936 | CEJL I | Book reviews of several titles published by Penguin Group, published in New English Weekly |
| "Evelyn Waugh" | April 1949 | CEJL IV, EL | Unpublished and unfinished essay written c. April 1949 |
| "Excursions in Autobiography" | 6 November 1937 | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| "Experientia Docet" | 28 August 1937 | – | Published in New Statesman and Nation |
| "Eye-witness in Barcelona" | August 1937 | – | Published in Controversy |
| "Eyes Left, Dress!" | 17 February 1938 | – | Published in New English Weekly |
| Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays | 13 October 2008 | – | Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in New York City, edited by George Packer. Companion volume to All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays |
| "The Faith of Thomas Mann" | 10 September 1943 | – | Published in Tribune |
| Faith, Reason and Civilisation by Harold Laski | 13 March 1944 | EL | Rejected book review submitted to Manchester Evening News |
| "A Farthing Newspaper" | 29 December 1928 | CEJL I, EL | Published in G. K.'s Weekly, credited to "Eric A. Blair" |
| "Fascism and Democracy" | 3 March 1941 | – | Published in Betrayal of the Left by Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| The Fate of the Middle Classes by Alec Brown | 30 April 1936 | EL | Book review published in New English Weekly |
| "Fiction and Life" | 9 November 1940 | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| "Films" | October 1940 | – | Published in Time and Tide from October 1940 through August 1941 |
| "Five Travellers" | 12 September 1936 | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| "For Ever Eton" | 1 August 1948 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Foreign Policies" | 5 April 1946 | – | Published in Tribune |
| Forward to The End of the 'Old School Tie' | 1941 | – | By T. C. Worsley, published by Secker and Warburg |
| The Fox by Ignazio Silone | 9 September 1943 | WB | Adaptation of Silone's short story as a radio drama by Orwell, broadcast by the BBC |
| "France's Interest in the War Dwindles" | 6 May 1945 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Franco Spain" | 21 December 1940 | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| "Franz Borkenau on the Communist International" | 22 September 1938 | – | Published in New English Weekly |
| "Freed Politicians Return to Paris" | 13 May 1945 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Freedom and Happiness" | 4 January 1946 | – | Published in Tribune |
| Free Will | July 1920 | – | One-act play written while at Eton College |
| "Freedom Defence Committee" | 18 September 1948 | CEJL IV | Published in Socialist Leader |
| "Freedom of the Park" | 7 December 1945 | CEJL IV | Published in Tribune |
| "The Freedom of the Press" | 17 August 1945 | EL | An introduction to Animal Farm published in London and later in New York City on 26 August 1946 |
| The Freedom of the Streets by Jack Common | 16 June 1930 | CEJL I | Book review published in New English Weekly |
| "French Farce" | 8 July 1945 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "From the Notebooks of George Orwell" | June 1950 | – | Published in World Review |
| "The Frontiers of Art and Propaganda" | 30 April 1941 | 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" | 1 December 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Leader Magazine, 28 July 1945 |
| "Future of a Ruined Germany" | 8 April 1945 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "The Future of Socialism: IV Toward European Unity" | June 1947 | – | Published in Partisan Review, July/August 1947 |
| "Gandhi in Mayfair" | September 1943 | CEJL II, EL | Book review of Beggar My Neighbour by Lionel Fielden published in Horizon |
| "George Gissing" | May 1948 | CEJL IV, EL | Unpublished essay, written May–June 1948 |
| George Orwell: A Life in Letters | 10 May 2011 | – | Edited by Peter Davison, published in London by Harvill Secker and in the United States by Penguin |
| "The Germans Still Doubt Our Unity" | 29 April 1945 | – | Published in The Observer |
| Glimpses and Reflections by John Galsworthy | 12 March 1938 | CEJL I | Book review published in New Statesman and Nation |
| "Going Down" | 14 January 1945 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Good Bad Books" | 2 November 1945 | CEJL IV, SaE, EL, AAIP | Published in Tribune |
| "A 'Good Middle'" | October 1930 | – | Published in The Adelphi |
| "Good Travellers" | 2 December 1939 | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| "A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray" | 26 April 1946 | SaN, SaE, OR, CEJL IV, EL, FUF, STCM | Published in Tribune |
| The Great Dictator | 21 December 1940 | AAIP | Film review published in Time and Tide |
| Great Morning by Osbert Sitwell | July 1948 | CEJL IV, EL | Book review published in The Adelphi, July/September 1948 |
| "The Green Flag" | 28 October 1945 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Grounds for Dismay" | 9 April 1944 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Guerillas" | 14 December 1940 | – | Published in New Statesman and Nation |
| Gypsies by Martin Block; translated by Barbara Kuczynski and Duncan Taylor | December 1938 | EL | Book review published in The Adelphi |
| "A Hanging" | August 1931 | SaE, OR, ColE, DotEM, CEJL I, EL, FUF, WIW | Published in The Adelphi, reprinted in The New Savoy in 1946, credited to "Eric A. Blair" |
| "A Happy Vicar I Might Have Been" | 1935 | – | Poem |
| "Havelock Ellis" | May 1940 | – | Published in The Adelphi |
| The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene | 17 July 1948 | CEJL IV, EL, AAIP | Book review published in The New Yorker |
| Herman Melville by Lewis Mumford | March 1930 | CEJL I | Book review published in New Adelphi, March–May 1930, credited to "E. A. Blair" |
| "Hidden Spain" | 28 November 1943 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "History Books" | 21 September 1940 | – | Published in New Statesman and Nation |
| "Hitler" | 21 March 1940 | – | Published in New English Weekly |
| "Holding Out" | 14 September 1940 | – | Published in New Statesman and Nation |
| Homage to Catalonia | 25 April 1938 | OR (excerpts) | Published by Secker and Warburg in London on 25 April 1938 and in the United States in 1952. |
| "Hop-Picking" | 17 October 1931 | CEJL I | Published in The New Statesman and Nation, a longer version appears in Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters I |
| "How the Poor Die" | November 1946 | SaE, OR, ColE, DotEM, CEJL IV, EL, FUF | Published in Now number six |
| "A Hundred Up" | 13 February 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Book review of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens published in The Observer |
| "Imaginary Interview: George Orwell and Jonathan Swift" | 2 November 1942 | WB, EL | Broadcast by BBC African Service, titled by West as "Jonathan Swift, an Imaginary Interview" |
| "Impenetrable Mystery" | 9 June 1938 | – | Published in New English Weekly |
| In a Strange Land: Essays by Eric Gill by Eric Gill | 9 July 1944 | EL | Book review published in The Observer |
| "In Defence of Comrade Zilliacus" | August 1947 | CEJL IV, EL | Unpublished essay intended for Tribune, August/September 1947 |
| "In Defence of English Cooking" | 15 December 1945 | CEJL III, EL, FUF, STCM | Published in Evening Standard |
| "In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse" | July 1945 | CrE, OR, ColE, CEJL III, EL, STCM | Published in The Windmill number two |
| "In Defence of the Novel" | 12 November 1936 | CEJL I, EL | Published in two issues of New English Weekly from 12 and 19 November 1936 |
| "In Front of Your Nose" | 22 March 1946 | CEJL IV, EL, FUF | Published in Tribune |
| "In Pursuit of Lord Acton" | 29 March 1946 | – | Published in Tribune |
| "In the Firing Line" | 2 January 1944 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Indian Ink" | 29 October 1944 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Inside the Whale" | 11 March 1940 | ItW, SSWtJ, EYE, CoE, SE, ColE, CEJL I, EL, AAIP | Published as part of Inside the Whale and Other Essays |
| Inside the Whale and Other Essays | 11 March 1940 | – | 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. |
| "The Intellectual Revolt" | 24 January 1946 | EL | Published as part one of a series (with "What Is Socialism?", "The Christian Reformers", and "Pacifism and Progress") in Manchester Evening News |
| An Interlude in Spain by Charles d'Ydewalle, translated by Eric Sutton | 24 December 1944 | EL | Published in The Observer |
| Introduction to Love of Life and Other Stories by Jack London | October 1945 | 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 | December 1945 | 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 | 8 May 1935 | CEJL I | Introduction to the book published as La Vache Enragée by Éditions Gallimard |
| "An Ironic Poem About Prostitution | 1935 | – | Poem, date of composition is sometime before 1936 |
| "It Looks Different from Abroad" | 2 December 1946 | Article published in The New Republic | |
| "Jack London" | 5 March 1943 | WB | Broadcast by the BBC |
| James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution | 1946 | SaE, OR, ColE, CEJL IV, EL | Published by the Socialist Book Club and later reprinted in Polemic as "Second Thoughts on James Burnham" |
| James Joyce by Harry Levin | 2 March 1944 | EL | Book review published in Manchester Evening News |
| "John Galsworthy" | 23 March 1929 | – | Published in French in Monde |
| "Joint Control of Reich in Danger" | 27 May 1945 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "The Lessons of War" | February 1940 | – | Published in Horizon |
| "Joseph Conrad" | April 1949 | CEJL IV | Unpublished and unfinished essay written c. April 1949 |
| Journey to Turkistan by Sir Eric Teichman | 25 September 1937 | CEJL I | Book review published in Time and Tide |
| "Just Junk – But Who Could Resist It?" | 5 January 1946 | EL | Published as a Saturday Essay in Evening Standard |
| Keep the Aspidistra Flying | 20 April 1936 | OR (excerpts) CN | Published by Victor Gollancz, Ltd in London on 20 April 1936. |
| "Kitchener" | 21 July 1916 | – | Poem published in the Henley and South Oxfordshire Standard |
| Lady Gregory's Journals, edited by Lennox Robinson | 19 April 1947 | EL | Book review published in The New Yorker |
| "Lady Windermere's Fan" | 21 November 1943 | WB | Commentary on Oscar Wilde's play broadcast by the BBC |
| Landfall: A Channel Story by Nevil Shute and Nailcruncher by Albert Cohen, translated by Vyvyan Holland | 7 December 1940 | CEJL II | Book reviews published in New Statesman and Nation |
| The Last Days of Madrid by S. Casado | 20 January 1940 | CEJL I | Book review published in Time and Tide |
| "Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool" | 7 March 1947 | SaE, OR, SE, ColE, CEJL IV, EL, AAIP, STCM | Published in Polemic |
| "The Lesser Evil" | 1924 | – | Poem |
| "The Lessons of War" | February 1940 | – | Published in Horizon |
| "Letter from England to Partisan Review" | March 1943 | CEJL II | Published in Partisan Review, March/April 1943 |
| "Letter to an Indian" | 19 March 1943 | – | Published in Tribune |
| Letter to the editor | 5 February 1938 | CEJL I | Published in Time and Tide |
| Letter to the editor | 26 May 1938 | CEJL I | Published in New English Weekly |
| Letter to the editor | 22 June 1940 | CEJL II, EL | Published in Time and Tide |
| Letter to the editor | 12 October 1942 | CEJL II | Unpublished letter addressed to The Times |
| Letter to the editor | 26 June 1945 | CEJL III | Unpublished letter addressed to Tribune |
| Letter to the editor | 25 February 1946 | CEJL IV | An open letter about the Nuremburg Trials signed by several author published in Forward |
| Letter to the editor | June 1946 | 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" | 1 July 1945 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "The Limit to Pessimism" | 25 April 1940 | CEJL I | Published in New English Weekly |
| "The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius" | 19 January 1941 | OR, CEJL II, EL, WIW | Published by Secker and Warburg as Searchlight Books No. 1 |
| "Literature and the Left" | 4 June 1943 | CEJL II, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "Literature and Totalitarianism" | 21 May 1941 | CEJL II, EL | Initially broadcast over BBC Overseas Service, printed in The Listener on 19 June 1941 |
| "A Little Poem" | 1935 | – | Poem |
| 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 | 23 January 1936 | CEJL I | Book reviews published in New English Weekly |
| "London Letters" #1 | March 1941 | CEJL II | The first of several pieces of correspondence published in Partisan Review, March/April 1941 |
| "London Letters" #2 | March 1941 | CEJL II | Published in Partisan Review, March/April 1941 |
| "London Letters" #3 | July 1941 | CEJL II | Published in Partisan Review, July/August 1941 |
| "London Letters" #4 | November 1941 | CEJL II | Published in Partisan Review, November/December 1941 |
| "London Letters" #5 | March 1942 | CEJL II | Published in Partisan Review, March/April 1942 |
| "London Letters" #6 | July 1942 | CEJL II | Published in Partisan Review, July/August 1942; also known as "The British Crisis" |
| "London Letters" #7 | November 1942 | CEJL II | Published in Partisan Review, November/December 1942 |
| "London Letters" #8 | March 1943 | CEJL II | Published in Partisan Review, March/April 1943 |
| "London Letters" #9 | July 1941 | CEJL II | Published in Partisan Review, July/August 1943 |
| "London Letters" #10 | March 1944 | CEJL III | Published in Partisan Review, Spring 1944; sent 15 January 1944 |
| "London Letters" #11 | June 1944 | CEJL III | Published in Partisan Review, Summer 1944; sent 17 April 1944 |
| "London Letters" #12 | December 1944 | CEJL III | Published in Partisan Review, Winter 1944; sent 24 July 1944 |
| "London Letters" #13 | June 1945 | CEJL III | Published in Partisan Review, Summer 1945; sent 5 June 1945 |
| "London Letters" #14 | September 1945 | CEJL III | Published in Partisan Review, Fall 1945; sent c. 15 August 1945 |
| "London Letters" #15 | June 1946 | CEJL IV | Published in Partisan Review, Summer 1946; sent early May 1946 |
| "Looking Back on the Spanish War" | 1943 | SSWtJ, EYE, CoE, ColE, CEJL II, EL, FUF | Published in New Road, likely composed in 1942 |
| "Looking Before and After" | 21 October 1939 | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| "A Lost World" | 1 February 1948 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "The Lure of Atrocity" | 23 June 1938 | – | Published in New English Weekly |
| "The Lure of Profundity" | 30 December 1937 | – | Published in New English Weekly |
| "Macbeth" | 17 October 1943 | WB | Commentary on William Shakespeare's play broadcast by the BBC |
| The Machievellians by James Burnham | 20 January 1944 | EL | Book review published in Manchester Evening News |
| "Man from the Sea" | 24 June 1945 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "The Man in Kid Gloves" | June 1929 | – | A short story composed prior to the summer of 1929 and which has not survived |
| Many Are Called by Edward Newhouse | 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" | 26 November 1943 | CEJL II | Published in Tribune |
| "Marrakech" | 25 December 1939 | SSWtJ, CoE, ColE, CEJL I, EL, FUF | Published in New Writing, New Series number three |
| "Marx and Russia" | 15 February 1948 | EL | Published in The Observer |
| "The Meaning of a Poem" | 7 May 1941 | CEJL II, EL | Initially broadcast over BBC Overseas Service on 14 May 1941, printed in The Listener on 5 June 1941 |
| "The Meaning of Sabotage" | 29 January 1942 | WB | Broadcast by the BBC |
| Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, unabridged translation | 21 March 1940 | CEJL II, EL | Book review published in New English Weekly |
| The Men I Killed by F. P. Crozier | 28 August 1937 | CEJL I | Book review published in New Statesman and Nation |
| "Men of the Isles" | 29 February 1948 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Milton in Striped Trousers" | 12 October 1945 | – | Published in Tribune |
| Milton: Man and Thinker by Denis Saurat | 20 August 1944 | EL | Book review published in The Observer |
| Mind at the End of Its Tether by H. G. Wells | 8 November 1945 | EL | Book review published in Manchester Evening News |
| "Mis-Observation" | 26 October 1940 | – | Published in New Statesman and Nation |
| "Money and Guns" | 20 January 1942 | WB, EL | Published in Through Eastern Eyes and broadcast by the BBC |
| "Money and Virtue" | 10 November 1944 | – | Published in Tribune |
| "The Moon Under Water" | 9 February 1946 | CEJL III, EL, FUF | Published as a Saturday Essay in Evening Standard |
| "My Country Right or Left" | September 1940 | CEJL I, EL, FUF | Published in Folios of New Writing, number two, Autumn 1940 |
| "More News from Tartary" | 4 September 1937 | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| "Moscow and Madrid" | 20 January 1940 | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| "Mr Dickens Sits for His Portrait" | 15 May 1949 | – | Published in New York Times Book Review |
| "Mr Joad's Point of View" | 8 June 1940 | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| "Mr Sludge" | 6 June 1948 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Muffled Voice" | 10 June 1945 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "My Epitaph by John Flory" | 1934 | CEJL I | A passage edited from Burmese Days |
| My Life: The Autobiography of Havelock Ellis by Havelock Ellis | May 1940 | EL | Book review published in The Adelphi |
| "Nationalism" | 14 May 1943 | – | Published in Tribune |
| "New Words" | February 1940 | CEJL II, EL | Unpublished, date of composition is speculated to be February–April 1940 |
| "New World" | 17 September 1944 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "A New Year Message" | 5 January 1945 | CEJL III | Published in Tribune |
| "A Nice Cup of Tea" | 12 January 1946 | CEJL III, EL, FUF | Published as a Saturday Essay in Evening Standard |
| "Nicholas Moore vs. George Orwell" | January 1942 | – | Published in Partisan Review, January/February 1942 |
| The Nigger of the 'Narcissus', Typhoon, The Shadow Line, Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad | 24 June 1945 | CEJL III | Book reviews published in Observer |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | 8 June 1949 | OR (excerpts) CN | Published by Secker and Warburg in London on 8 June 1949. |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Facsimile of the Extant Manuscript | May 1984 | – | Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in May 1984 (ISBN 0151660344). |
| "Note to Whitehall's Road to Mandalay by Robert Duval" | 2 April 1943 | – | Published in Tribune |
| "No, Not One" | October 1941 | CEJL II, EL, AAIP | Book review of No Such Liberty by Alex Comfort published in The Adelphi |
| Noblesse Oblige—Another Letter to My Son by Osbert Sitwell | 30 November 1944 | 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. Mégroz" | 21 December 1945 | SaE, CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "North and South" | 8 March 1937 | EYE | First published as part one, chapter seven of The Road to Wigan Pier |
| "Not Counting Niggers" | July 1939 | CEJL I, EL | Book review of Union Now by Clarence K. Streit published in The Adelphi, republished as "Review of Union Now by Clarence K. Streit" |
| "Not Enough Money: A Sketch of George Gissing" | 2 April 1943 | EL | Published in Tribune |
| "Notes on Nationalism" | October 1945 | EYE, ColE, DotEM, CEJL III, EL | Published in Polemic: A Magazine of Philosophy, Physchology & Aesthetics, number one |
| "Notes on the Spanish Militias" | 1938 | CEJL I, EL | Unpublished, compiled in 1938 |
| "Notes on the Way" | 30 March 1940 | CEJL II, EL | Published in two issues of Time and Tide, 30 March and 6 April 1940 |
| "Note to Whitehall's Road to Mandalay by Robert Duval" | 2 April 1943 | – | Published in Tribune |
| Notes Towards the Definition of Culture by T. S. Eliot | 28 November 1948 | CEJL IV, EL | Book review published in The Observer |
| The Novel To-Day by Philip Henderson | 31 December 1936 | CEJL I, EL | Book review published in New English Weekly |
| "Occupation's Effect on French Outlook" | 4 March 1945 | – | Published in The Observer |
| Of Ants and Men by Caryl Parker Haskins | 5 May 1946 | EL | Published in The Observer |
| "Old George's Almanac" | 28 December 1945 | – | Published in Tribune, credited to "Crystal-Gazer Orwell" |
| "Old Master" | 26 March 1944 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "On a Ruined Farm Near the His Master's Voice Gramophone Factory" | April 1934 | CEJL I | Poem published in The Adelphi, later selected for The Best Poems of 1934 by Thomas Moult |
| "On Housing" | 25 January 1946 | – | Published in Tribune |
| "On Kipling's Death" | 23 January 1936 | CEJL I, EL | Published in New English Weekly |
| "On the Brink" | 13 July 1940 | – | Published in New Statesman and Nation |
| The Orwell Reader, Fiction, Essays, and Reportage | 1956 | – | Published by Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich in New York City |
| "Our Minds Are Married, but We Are Too Young" | 1918 | – | Poem published in his school newspaper |
| "Our Opportunity" | January 1941 | – | Published in Left News |
| "Our Own Have-Nots" | 27 November 1937 | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| "Out of Step" | 7 November 1943 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Oysters and Brown Stout" | 22 November 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "Pacifism and Progress" | 14 February 1946 | 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" | September 1942 | 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" |
| "The Pagan" | 1918 | – | Poem given to Jacintha Buddicom[14] |
| "Pamphlet Literature" | 9 January 1943 | CEJL II | Published in New Statesman and Nation |
| "Paris Is Not France" | 12 September 1943 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Paris Puts a Gay Face on Her Miseries" | 25 February 1945 | LO | Published in The Observer |
| "Patriots and Revolutionaries" | 3 March 1941 | – | Published in Betrayal of the Left by Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| "The People's Victory" | 15 February 1941 | – | Published in New Statesman and Nation |
| "Perfide Albion" | 21 November 1942 | – | Published in New Statesman and Nation |
| "Personal Notes on Scientifiction" | 21 July 1945 | EL | Published in Leader Magazine |
| Personal Record by Julien Green | 13 April 1940 | CEJL II | Book review published in Time and Tide |
| "The Petition Crown" | June 1929 | – | A short story composed prior to the summer of 1929 and which has not survived |
| "Pity and Terror" | 7 October 1945 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Pleasure Spots" | 11 January 1946 | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "Poem from Burma" | 1922 | – | Poem composed during his stay in Burma, 1922–1927 |
| "Poet and Priest" | 12 November 1944 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Poet in Darkness" | 31 December 1944 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Poetry and the Microphone" | March 1945 | SSWtJ, EYE, ColE, CEJL II, EL | Published in The New Saxon Pamphlet number three, likely composed in summer 1943 |
| "Points of View" | December 1944 | – | Published in Poetry |
| "Political Reflections on the Crisis" | December 1938 | EL | Published in The Adelphi |
| "Politics and the English Language" | 11 December 1945 | AAIP, CEJL IV, CoE, ColE, EL, OR, SaE, SE, WIW | Published independently as a Payments Book, later printed in Horizon, April 1946 |
| "The Politics of Starvation" | 18 January 1946 | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels" | September 1946 | SaE, OR, SE, ColE, CEJL IV, EL, AAIP, STCM | Published in Polemic, September/October 1946 |
| "Portrait of the General" | 2 August 1942 | – | Published in The Observer |
| Portrait of the Anti-Semite by Jean-Paul Sartre | 7 November 1948 | CEJL IV, EL | Book review published in The Observer |
| "Portrait of the General" | 2 August 1942 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Poverty – Plain and Coloured" | 1931 | – | Published in The Adelphi |
| Power: A New Social Analysis by Bertrand Russell | January 1939 | CEJL I, EL | Book review published in The Adelphi |
| "Power House" | 23 April 1944 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Preface to the Ukrainian edition of Animal Farm" | March 1947 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Polemic, January 1946, reprinted in The Atlantic Monthly, March 1947 |
| "The Prevention of Literature" | January 1946 | SaE, OR, SE, ColE, CEJL IV, EL, AAIP | Published in Polemic, January 1946, reprinted in The Atlantic Monthly, March 1947 |
| "Prime Minister" | 4 July 1948 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "A Prize for Ezra Pound" | May 1949 | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Partisan Review, also entitled "The Question of the Pound Award" |
| "Problem Picture" | 7 November 1948 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "The Proletarian Writer" | 6 December 1940 | CEJL II | Initially broadcast over BBC Home Service, printed in The Listener on 19 December 1940 |
| "Propaganda and Demotic Speech" | June 1944 | CEJL III, EL, AAIP | Published in Persuasion volume two, number two, Summer 1944 |
| "Propagandist Critics" | 31 December 1936 | – | Published in New English Weekly |
| "Prophecies of Fascism" | 12 June 1940 | CEJL II | Published in Tribune |
| The Prussian Officer and Other Stories by D. H. Lawrence | 16 November 1945 | CEJL IV, EL | Book review published in Tribune |
| The Pub and the People by Mass Observation | 21 January 1943 | CEJL III | Book review published in The Listener |
| "Public Schoolboys" | 14 September 1940 | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| "Puritan Poet" | 20 August 1944 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "A Questionable Shape" | 18 July 1948 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Questionnaire: The Cost of Letters" | September 1946 | – | Published in Horizon |
| "Raffles and Miss Blandish" | 28 August 1944 | CrE, CoE, ColE, DotEM, CEJL III, EL, AAIP | Published in Horizon, October 1944 and Politics, November 1944 |
| "The Re-Discovery of Europe" | 10 March 1942 | 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" | 18 July 1936 | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| Red Spanish Notebook by Mary Low and Juan Brea, Heroes of the Alcazar by R. Timmermans | 9 October 1937 | CEJL I | Book review published in Time and Tide |
| "Red, White, and Brown" | 4 July 1940 | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| "Reflections on Gandhi" | January 1949 | SaE, CoE, OR, CEJL IV, EL, AAIP | Published in Partisan Review |
| The Reilly Plan by Lawrence Wolfe | 25 January 1946 | CEJL IV | Book review published in Tribune |
| "Reply to Horizon Questionnaire" | 1947 | – | Published in the book British Thought, published by Gresham Press in New York, 1947 |
| "Return Journey" | 9 July 1944 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Revenge Is Sour" | 9 November 1945 | CEJL IV, EL, FUF | Published in Tribune |
| "Revolt in the Urban Desert" | 10 October 1943 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Riding Down from Bangor" | 22 November 1946 | SaE, CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "The Right to Free Expression" | 1946 | – | Written by Randall Swingler with commentary from Orwell, published in Polemic, September/October 1946 |
| The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek and The Mirror of the Past by Konni Zilliacus | 9 April 1943 | CEJL III | Book reviews published in Observer |
| The Road to Wigan Pier | 8 March 1937 | OR (excerpts) | Published by Victor Gollancz, Ltd in London on 8 March 1937. |
| "The Road to Wigan Pier Diary" | 31 January 1936 | CEJL I | Excerpts of Orwell's diary |
| The Rock Pool by Cyril Connolly and Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad | 23 July 1936 | CEJL I, EL | Book reviews published in New English Weekly |
| "Romance" | 1925 | – | Poem |
| "The Romantic Case" | 23 July 1941 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Rudyard Kipling" | February 1942 | CrE, CoE, OR, DotEM, CEJL II, EL, AAIP | Published in Horizon |
| "The Ruling Class" | December 1940 | – | Published in Horizon, later incorporated into "The Lion and the Unicorn" |
| "Russian Regime" | 12 January 1939 | – | Published in New English Weekly |
| Russia Under Soviet Rule by N. de Basily | 12 January 1939 | CEJL I, EL | Book review published in New English Weekly |
| "Ruth Pitter's Poetry" | February 1940 | – | Published in The Adelphi |
| "The Sanctified Sinner" | 17 July 1948 | – | Published in The New Yorker |
| "Satirical Bullseyes" | 7 September 1945 | – | Published in Tribune |
| "The Sea God" | June 1929 | – | A short story composed prior to summer of 1929 and which has not survived |
| Searchlight on Spain by Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl | 16 July 1938 | CEJL I | Book review published in Time and Tide, an abridged version appeared in New English Weekly 21 July 1938 |
| Selected Essays | 1957 | – | Published by Penguin Group in London |
| "Shooting an Elephant" | September 1936 | SaE, CoE, OR, SE, ColE, CEJL I, EL, FUF, STCM | Published in New Writing, number two, Autumn 1936, broadcast on the BBC Home Service 12 October 1948 |
| Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays | 5 October 1950 | – | Published by Secker and Warburg in London |
| "Singing Men" | 26 November 1944 | – | Published in The Observer |
| A Slip Under the Microscope by H. G. Wells | 9 September 1943 | WB | Adaptation of Wells' short story as a radio drama by Orwell, broadcast by the BBC |
| "A Smoking Room Story" | April 1949 | CEJL IV | Unfinished story from his notebook |
| "So Runs the World" | 22 July 1945 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Socialists Answer Our Questions on the War" | November 1941 | – | Published in Left News |
| "Some Thoughts on the Common Toad" | 12 April 1946 | SaE, OR, CEJL IV, EL, FUF | Published in Tribune |
| "Sometimes in the Middle Autumn Days" | March 1933 | – | Poem published in The Adelphi, credited to "Eric Blair" |
| "Songs We Used to Sing" | 19 January 1946 | EL | Published as a Saturday Essay in Evening Standard |
| The Soul of Man Under Socialism by Oscar Wilde | 9 May 1948 | CEJL IV, EL | Book review published in The Observer |
| "Spain: Today and Yesterday" | 9 October 1937 | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| "Spaniard in Spain" | 28 June 1941 | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| The Spanish Cockpit by Franz Borkenau and Volunteer in Spain by John Sommerfield | 31 July 1937 | CEJL I | Book reviews published in Time and Tide |
| "Spanish Nightmare" | 31 July 1937 | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| "Spanish Prison" | 24 December 1944 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Spanish Quintet" | 11 December 1937 | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| Spanish Testament by Arthur Koestler | 5 February 1938 | CEJL I | Book review published in Time and Tide |
| "The Spanish Tragedy" | 16 July 1938 | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| "The Spanish War" | December 1939 | – | Published in The Adelphi |
| Spearhead: Ten Years' Experimental Writing in America edited by James Laughlin | 17 April 1948 | EL | Book review published in The Times Literary Supplement |
| "The Spike" | April 1931 | CEJL I, EL, FUF | Published in The Adelphi, credited to "Eric Blair"; revised as chapters 27 and 35 of Down and Out in Paris and London |
| "Spilling the Spanish Beans" | 29 July 1937 | CEJL I, EL | Published in two issues of New English Weekly, 29 July and 2 September 1937 |
| The Spirit of Catholicism by Karl Adam | 9 June 1932 | CEJL I | Book review published in New English Weekly |
| "The Sporting Spirit" | 14 December 1945 | SaE, CEJL IV, EL, FUF | Published in Tribune |
| "Stalinism and Aristocracy" | 21 July 1938 | – | Published in New English Weekly |
| Stendhal by F. C. Green | July 1939 | CEJL I | Book review published in The Adelphi |
| Storm Over Spain by Mairin Mitchell, Spanish Rehearsal by Arnold Lunn, and Catalonia Infelix by Edgar Allison Peers | 11 December 1937 | CEJL I | Book reviews published in Time and Tide |
| "Story by Five Authors" | 9 October 1942 | WB | A short story composed by five separate 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). |
| The Story of Burma by F. Tennyson Jesse | 24 February 1946 | CEJL IV | Book review published in Observer |
| Subject India by H. N. Brailsford | 20 November 1943 | EL | Book review published in The Nation and Atheneum |
| "Such, Such Were the Joys" | 1947 | SSWtJ, CoE, OR, CEJL IV, EL, FUF | It is speculated that this piece was completed in 1947, but possible dates range from 1939 through June 1947. Unpublished until 1952, this essay was not printed in the United Kingdom until 1968. |
| Such, Such Were the Joys | 1953 | – | Published by Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich in New York City in 1953 |
| "Suggested by a Toothpaste Advertisement" | 1918 | – | Poem published in his school newspaper between 1918 and 1919 |
| "Summer-like for an Instant" | 1933 | – | Poem |
| "Survey of 'Civvy Street'" | 4 June 1944 | – | Published in The Observer |
| The Sword and the Sickle by Mulk Raj Anand | July 1942 | CEJL II, EL | Book review published in Horizon |
| "A Symposium... Upon Professor John Macmurray's The Clue to History" | February 1939 | – | Published in The Adelphi |
| "Tale of a Head" | 19 August 1945 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "T. S. Eliot" | October 1942 | EL, AAIP | Published in Poetry London, October/November 1942 |
| Talking to India, by E. M. Forster, Richie Calder, Cedric Dover, Hsiao Ch'ien and Others: A Selection of English Language Broadcasts to India | 1943 | – | Published by Allen & Unwin, edited with an introduction by Orwell |
| "The Taming of Power" | January 1939 | – | Published in The Adelphi |
| "Tapping the Wheels" | 16 January 1944 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Teller of Tales" | 18 November 1945 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Temperature Chart" | 25 June 1944 | – | Published in The Observer |
| The Tempest by William Shakespeare and The Peaceful Inn by Denis Ogden, Duke of York's | 8 June 1940 | AAIP | Drama reviews published in Time and Tide |
| "Terror in Spain" | 5 February 1938 | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| "Theatre" | May 1940 | – | Published in Time and Tide from May 1940 to August 1941. |
| Their Finest Hour by Winston Churchill | 14 May 1949 | CEJL IV | Book review published in The New Leader |
| The Thirties by Malcolm Muggeridge | 25 April 1940 | EL | Published in New English Weekly |
| "Thomas Hardy Looks at War" | 18 September 1942 | – | Published in Tribune |
| "Three Years of Home Guard" | 9 May 1943 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Through a Glass, Rosily" | 23 November 1945 | CEJL IV | Published in Tribune |
| "Tobias Smollett: Scotland's Best Novelist" | 22 September 1944 | CEJL III, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "Tolstoy and Shakespeare" | 7 May 1941 | 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 | 26 March 1944 | EL | Book review published in The Observer |
| The Totalitarian Enemy by Franz Borkenau | 4 May 1940 | CEJL II | Book review published in Time and Tide |
| "Toward European Unity" | July 1947 | CEJL IV, EL | Book review published in Partisan Review, July/August 1947 |
| "Travel Round and Down" | 17 October 1936 | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| "Treausre and Travel" | 11 July 1936 | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| Trials in Burma by Maurice Collis | 9 March 1938 | CEJL I | Book review published in The Listener |
| Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller and The Wolf at the Door by Robert Francis | 14 November 1935 | CEJL I, EL | Book review published in New English Weekly |
| "The True Pattern of H. G. Wells" | 14 August 1946 | LO | Obituary for Wells published in Manchester Evening News |
| The Two Carlyles by Osbert Burdett | March 1931 | CEJL I | Book review published in New Adelphi, credited to "Eric Blair" |
| "Two Glimpses of the Moon" | 18 January 1941 | – | Published in New Statesman and Nation |
| "Uncertain Fate of Displaced Persons" | 10 June 1945 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Unemployment in England" | December 1928 | – | Published in French in Progrès Civique, between December 1928 and May 1929 |
| The Unquiet Grave by Palinurus | 14 January 1945 | CEJL III, EL | Book review published in The Observer |
| "Utmost Edge" | 27 February 1944 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Vessel of Wrath" | 21 May 1944 | – | Published in The Observer |
| The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith | 10 November 1944 | CEJL III | Book review published in Tribune |
| Victory or Vested Interest? | 15 May 1942 | – | Published by The Labour Book Service, with Orwell's "Culture and Democracy" (made up of the pieces "Fascism and Democracy" and "Patriots and Revolutionaries") |
| Voice #1 | 11 August 1942 | WB | The initial issue of Orwell's poetry magazine with readings by Mulk Raj Anand, John Atkins, William Empson, Vida Hope, and Herbert Read. |
| Voice #2 | 8 September 1942 | WB | Readings by Edmund Blunden, William Empson, Godfrey Kenton, and Herbert Read. |
| Voice #3 | 6 October 1942 | WB | Readings by Mulk Raj Anand, William Empson, Herbert Read, and Stephen Spender. |
| Voice #4 | 3 November 1942 | 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. |
| Voice #5 | December 1942 | – | This issue has not been recovered. |
| Voice #6 | 29 December 1942 | WB | Readings by Venu Chitale, William Empson, and Herbert Read. |
| "W. B. Yeats" | January 1943 | CrE, ColE, CEJL II | Published in Horizon |
| Walls Have Mouths by W. F. R. Macartney, with Prologue, Epilogue and Comments on the Chapters by Compton Mackenzie | November 1936 | EL | Book review published in The Adelphi |
| "Wandering Star" | 19 December 1943 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "War Commentary" #1 | 20 December 1941 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #2 | 3 January 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #3 | 10 January 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #4 | 17 January 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #5 | 24 January 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #6 | 31 January 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #7 | 7 February 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #8 | 14 February 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #9 | 21 February 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #10 | 28 February 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #11 | 14 March 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #12 | 21 March 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #13 | 28 March 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #14 | 4 April 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #15 | 18 April 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #16 | 25 April 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #17 | 2 May 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #18 | 9 May 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #19 | 16 May 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #20 | 23 May 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #21 | 6 June 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #22 | 13 June 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #23 | 11 July 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #24 | 18 July 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #25 | 25 July 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #26 | 1 August 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #27 | 8 August 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #28 | 15 August 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #29 | 22 August 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #30 | 29 August 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #31 | 5 September 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #32 | 12 September 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #33 | 19 September 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #34 | 26 September 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #35 | 3 October 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #36 | 10 October 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #37 | 17 October 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #38 | 24 October 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #39 | 31 October 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #40 | 7 November 1942 | WC | News reporting read by Indian correspondents, written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #41 | 28 November 1942 | WC | News reporting read and written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #42 | 12 December 1942 | WC | News reporting read and written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #43 | 17 December 1942 | WC | News reporting read and written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #44 | 26 December 1942 | WC | News reporting read and written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #45 | 9 January 1943 | WC | News reporting read and written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #46 | 16 January 1943 | WC | News reporting read and written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #47 | 20 February 1943 | WC | News reporting read and written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #48 | 27 February 1943 | WC | News reporting read and written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War Commentary" #49 | 13 March 1943 | WC | News reporting read and written by Orwell and broadcast by the BBC Eastern Service |
| "War in Burma" | 14 August 1943 | – | Published in New Statesman and Nation |
| "War-Time Diary" A | 28 May 1940 | CEJL II | Excerpts of Orwell's diary, 28 May 1940 – 28 August 1941 |
| "War-Time Diary" B | 14 March 1942 | CEJL II | Excerpts of Orwell's diary, 14 March – 15 November 1942 |
| "War-Time Diary" C | 1939 | FUF | Excerpts of Orwell's diary, 1939–1942 |
| "Wavell on Hilicon" | 12 March 1944 | – | Published in The Observer |
| The Way of a Countryman by Sir William Beach Thomas | 23 March 1944 | EL | Book review published in Manchester Evening News |
| "The Way of a Poet" | 17 April 1943 | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| We by Yevgeny Zamyatin | 4 January 1946 | CEJL IV | Published in Tribune |
| "We Are Observed!" | 2 March 1940 | – | Published in Time and Tide |
| "Wells, Hitler and The World State" | August 1941 | CrE, ColE, CEJL II, EL, AAIP | Published in Horizon |
| "What Is Science?" | 26 October 1945 | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| "What Is Socialism" | 31 January 1946 | 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?" | 15 August 1943 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Who Are the War Criminals?" | 22 October 1943 | CEJL II | Published in Tribune |
| "Why I Joined the I.L.P." | 24 June 1938 | CEJL I, EL | Published in The New Leader |
| "Why I Write" | June 1946 | SSWtJ, EYE, CoE, OR, ColE, DotEM, CEJL I, EL, FUF, WIW | Published in Gangrel, number four, Summer 1946 |
| "Wilde's Utopia" | 9 May 1948 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Will Freedom Die with Capitalism?" | April 1941 | – | Published in Left News |
| "Will Gypsies Survive?" | December 1938 | – | Published in The Adelphi |
| "Wishful Thinking and the Light Novel" | 19 September 1940 | – | Published in New Statesman and Nation |
| "Words and Henry Miller" | 22 February 1946 | EL | Published in Tribune |
| Workers' Front by Fenner Brockway | 17 February 1938 | CEJL I | Book review published in New English Weekly |
| "World Affairs, 1945" | 1945 | – | Published in Junior |
| "The Writer's Dilemma" | 22 August 1948 | – | Published in The Observer |
| "Writers and Leviathan" | June 1948 | SSWtJ, EYE, CEJL IV, EL, AAIP | Published in Politics and Letters, Summer 1948 |
| "You and the Atom Bomb" | 19 October 1945 | CEJL IV, EL | Published in Tribune |
| Your Questions Answered | 2 December 1943 | CEJL I | 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?" |
| Zest of Life by Johann Wöller, translated by Claude Napier | 17 October 1936 | CEJL I | Book review published in Time and Tide |
While Peter Davidson—the editor of the Complete Works—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.[12]
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. The 'lost essay' is included in the Collected Works and printed here for the first time under Orwell's name.[13]