Critical essays / by George Orwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orwell, George, 1903-1950.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

169 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm

Manufacture:

London and Edinburgh : Made and printed in Great Britain by Morrison and Gibb Ltd.

Other Title:

Dickens, Dali & others

Place of Publication:

London : Secker and Warburg, 1946.

Contents:

Charles Dickens.

Boys' weeklies.

Wells, Hitler and the world state.

The art of Donald McGill.

Rudyard Kipling.

W. B. Yeats.

Benefit of clergy: some notes on Salvador Dali.

Arthur Koestler.

Raffles and Miss Blandish.

In defense of P.G. Wodehouse.

Notes:

With a half-title.

"First published 1946."

"This book is produced in complete conformity with the authorized economy standards."

Publisher's advertisement: [1] p. at end.

Dust-jacket has large capitals printed in red across full front cover and partly shaded in red "George Orwell" and across them printed diagonally in black "Critical essays".

Price from dust-jacket: 8s. 6d. net.

American edition (New York, Reynal & Hitchcock) has title: Dickens, Dali & others.

Red cloth boards with titles printed on spine and front cover in gold.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has dust-jacket retained.

Culture Class Collection copy has book review cut from magazine laid in.

Culture Class Collection copy purchased for the Penn Libraries at Sotheby's (London) 15 December 1978, lot 492

OCLC:

186743558