The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters

Four volumes: Edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. 500+ pieces, written between 1920 and 1950: an account of a hanging, 'The Road to Wigan Pier Diary', review of 'Tropic of Cancer', bookshop memories, 'Not Counting Niggers', 'Tolstoy and Shakespeare', wartime diary May 1940-November 1942, 'Poetry and the Microphone', 'As I Please' columns from The Tribune; correspondents include: Cyril Connolly, T.S. Eliot, Victor Gollancz, Rayner Heppenstall, Arthur Koestler, James Laughlin, John Lehmann, Anthony Powell, Stephen Spender, Julian Symons; 2,100 pp+., indexed; all over the first half of the twentieth century.

Publisher: Secker and Warburg. First English editions
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: London
Extremities dusty and spots of foxing, very good in near fine dustwrappers a little darkened on the spine. The four vols.


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