A Kind of Compulsion: 1903-1936
Pages: 672
|Published: 1 Jan 1998
Description
Volume 10 of The Complete Works of George Orwell
This volume begins with Orwell's illustrated letters home from prep school and the stories, poems and contributions to college publications he wrote at Eton. Then there are his articles and essays on poverty, censorship and imperialist exploitation first published in Paris in 1928-29, his early reviews, his first important essay, "A Hanging," and correspondence dealing with the publication of Down and Out in Paris and London and the censorship of Burmese Days , A Clergyman's Daughter , and Keep the Aspidistra Flying.
This volume begins with Orwell's illustrated letters home from prep school and the stories, poems and contributions to college publications he wrote at Eton. Then there are his articles and essays on poverty, censorship and imperialist exploitation first published in Paris in 1928-29, his early reviews, his first important essay, "A Hanging," and correspondence dealing with the publication of Down and Out in Paris and London and the censorship of Burmese Days , A Clergyman's Daughter , and Keep the Aspidistra Flying.
