This collection of essays, reviews, articles, and letters which he wrote between the ages of seventeen and forty-six (when he died) is arranged in chronological order.

The four volumes provide at once a wonderfully intimate impression of, and a splendid monument to, one of the most honest and individual writers of this century a man who forged a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud, who possessed an unerring gift for going straight to the point, and who elevated political writing to an art.

Library (for: II: 38, 39, 52); Dr G.

Ltd for The English People; the executors of the late James Agate for his contribution to the controversy in the Manchester Evening News; the executors of Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Oxford University Press for Felix Randal; Elek Books Ltd for the Introduction to Jack Londons Love of Life; Eyre Spottiswoode Ltd for the Introduction to Leonard Merricks The Position of Peggy Harper and the executors of the late Konni Zilliacus for his letters to Tribune.

Jones, Jon Kimche, Denys King-Farlow, Arthur Koestler, Mrs Georges Kopp, James Laughlin, F.

A. Lea, John Lehmann, John McNair, Michael Meyer, Henry Miller, Raymond Mortimer, Mrs Middleton Murry, Mrs Rosalind Obermeyer, Laurence OShaughnessy, Partisan Review, Professor R.

S. Peters, Ruth Fitter, Joyce Pritchard, Philip Rahv, Sir Herbert Read, Vernon Richards, the Rev.

Sir Steven Runciman, Brenda Salkeld, John Sceats, Roger Senhouse, Stephen Spender, Oliver Stallybrass, Professor Gleb Struve, Julian Symons, F.

J. Warburg and Professor George Woodcock.

We would also like to thank: Angus Calder (for allowing us to consult his unpublished thesis on the Common Wealth Party); Howard Fink (for allowing us to consult his unpublished Chronology of Orwells Loci and Activities); and I.

R. Wilson (whose George Orwell: Some Materials for a Bibliography, School of Librarianship, London University, 1953, was indispensable).

There are one or two rare exceptions to this rule, generally made for the sake of illustrating the development in Orwells thought, but a note at the end of each article or review states when, and in which publication, it appeared first.

If it was not published or the date of writing has determined its position, the date of writing is given.

Where there is no mention of a periodical at the end of an article, it has never been published before.

Why I Write, written in 1946, has been placed at the beginning of Volume I, as it seems a suitable introduction to the whole collection.

All the others are either Orwells own or those of the editors of the publication in question.

He certainly wrote his own titles for his Tribune pieces: some of the others read as if he had written them but with most it is hard to tell and there is no way of finally checking.

With everything else we have had to use the text as it appeared in print.

As anyone who has ever done any journalism or book reviewing knows, this means the text which appears here may well be slightly, if not very, different from the text Orwell originally wrote.

Editors cut, printers make errors which are not thought of as very important in journalism, and it is only when the writer wants to reprint his pieces in book form that he bothers to restore the cuts, correct the errors and generally prepare them to survive in more lasting form: the reader therefore should bear in mind that they might well be very different if Orwell had revised them for re-publication.

Both to these previously printed essays and journalism and to the hitherto unpublished articles and diaries we have given a uniform style in spelling, quotation marks and punctuation.

In a few cases postscripts of an unimportant nature have been omitted without indication.

Otherwise cuts in both the letters and the journalism have been indicated by three dots, with a fourth dot to indicate a period.

The same method was used by Orwell for indicating omissions when abridging excerpts he was quoting in reviews and essays, but as we have not made cuts in any of these excerpts there should be no confusion between our cuts and Orwells own.

Whenever one of the self-contained sections has been entirely omitted, this has not been indicated, but any cut made within a section is indicated by the usual three or four dots.

Later on new friends and acquaintances knew him and addressed him as George Orwell.

His earlier articles were signed E.

A. Blair or Eric Blair and we have indicated these.

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