As I Please: 1943-1945 Book

	Acknowledgements	xi
	Introduction	xv
	A Note on the Editing	xxi
1.	Why I Write	1
	1920-1929
2.	Letter to Steven Runciman	11
3.	A Farthing Newspaper	12
4.	Letter to Max Plowman	15
	1930
5.	Review of Herman Melville by Lewis Mumford	19
6.	Review of Alexander Pope by Edith Sitwell, etc	22
7.	Review of Angel Pavement by J. B. Priestley	25
8.	Letter to Max Plowman	27
	1931
9.	Lettercard to Mac Plowman	33
10.	Review of The Two Carlyles by Osbert Burdett	33
11.	The Spike	36
12.	A Hanging	44
13.	Letter to Dennis Collings	49
14.	Letter to Dennis Collings	51
15.	Hop-Picking	52
16.	Letter to T. S. Eliot	72
17.	Letter to T. S. Eliot	73
	1932
18.	Letter to Leonard Moore	77
19.	Review of The Spirit of Catholicism by Karl Adam	79
20.	Letter to Eleanor Jaques	81
21.	Letter to Eleanor Jaques	83
22.	Letter to Leonard Moore	84
23.	Letter to Leonard Moore	84
24.	Letter to Eleanor Jaques	85
25.	Clink	86
26.	Review of Byron and the Need of Fatality by Charles du Bos	95
27.	Common Lodging Houses	97
28.	Letter to Brenda Salkeld	100
29.	Letter to Eleanor Jaques	101
30.	Letter to Eleanor Jaques	102
31.	Letter to Leonard Moore	104
32.	Letter to Eleanor Jaques	105
33.	Letter to Leonard Moore	106
34.	Letter to Eleanor Jaques	107
35.	Letter to Eleanor Jaques	108
36.	Letter to Leonard Moore	109
	1933
37.	Introduction to the French edition of Down and Out in Paris and London	113
38.	Letter to Leonard Moore	115
39.	Letter to the Editor of The Times	115
40.	Letter to Eleanor Jaques	117
41.	Poem	118
42.	Letter to Brenda Salkeld	119
43.	Letter to Eleanor Jaques	119
44.	Letter to Brenda Salkeld	120
45.	Letter to Eleanor Jaques	122
46.	Letter to Eleanor Jaques	122
47.	Poem	123
48.	Letter to Leonard Moore	125
49.	Letter to Brenda Salkeld	125
50.	Letter to Leonard Moore	129
	1934
51.	Letter to Leonard Moore	133
52.	Letter to Leonard Moore	134
53.	Poem: On a Ruined Farm near the His Master's Voice Gramophone Factory	134
54.	Letter to Leonard Moore	135
55.	Letter to Brenda Salkeld	136
56.	Letter to Brenda Salkeld	137
57.	Letter to Brenda Salkeld	139
58.	Letter to Leonard Moore	141
59.	My Epitaph by John Flory	141
60.	Letter to Leonard Moore	142
	1935
61.	Letter to Leonard Moore	147
62.	Letter to Brenda Salkeld	147
63.	Review of Caliban Shrieks by Jack Hilton	148
64.	Letter to Brenda Salkeld	150
65.	Letter to Rayner Heppenstall	152
66.	Letter to Rayner Heppenstall	153
67.	Review of Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller	154
	1936
68.	[On Kipling's Death]	159
69.	Review of The Lively Lady by Kenneth Roberts, etc	160
70.	Letter to Cyril Connolly	162
71.	Letter to Sir Richard Rees, Bt.	163
72.	Review of Penguin Books	165
73.	Letter to Jack Common	168
74.	The Road to Wigan Pier Diary	170
75.	Letter to Jack Common	214
76.	Letter to Jack Common	215
77.	Letter to Sir Richard Rees, Bt.	217
78.	Review of Bastard Death by Michael Fraenkel, etc	219
79.	Letter to John Lehmann	221
80.	Letter to Geoffrey Gorer	221
81.	Letter to Anthony Powell	223
82.	Letter to Denys King-Farlow	224
83.	Review of The Rock Pool by Cyril Connolly, etc	225
84.	Letter to Henry Miller	227
85.	Review of Black Spring by Henry Miller, etc	230
86.	Letter to Jack Common	233
87.	Review of Zest of Life by Johann Woller	234
88.	Shooting an Elephant	235
89.	Bookshop Memories	242
90.	Review of The Calf of Paper by Scholem Asch, etc	247
91.	In Defence of the Novel	249
92.	Letter to Leonard Moore	256
93.	Review of The Novel Today by Philip Henderson	256
	1937
94.	Postcard to James Hanley	263
95.	Your Questions Answered	264
96.	Letter to Eileen Blair	264
97.	Letter to Victor Gollancz	267
98.	Letter to Mr Thompson	268
99.	Letter to Cyril Connolly	268
100.	Spilling the Spanish Beans	269
101.	Review of The Spanish Cockpit by Franz Borkenau, etc	276
102.	Letter to Rayner Heppenstall	278
103.	Letter to Geoffrey Gorer	280
104.	Review of The Men I Killed by Brigadier-General F. P. Crozier	282
105.	Letter to Geoffrey Gorer	283
106.	Review of Journey to Turkistan by Sir Eric Teichman	286
107.	Review of Red Spanish Notebook by Mary Low and Juan Brea, etc	287
108.	Letter to Jack Common	288
109.	Lettercard to Cyril Connolly	290
110.	Review of Storm over Spain by Mairin Mitchell, etc	290
	1938
111.	Review of Spanish Testament by Arthur Koestler	295
112.	Letter to Jack Common	296
113.	Letter to the Editor of Time and Tide	297
114.	Letter to Raymond Mortimer	299
115.	Letter to Alec Houghton Joyce	302
116.	Letter to Jack Common	303
117.	Review of Workers' Front by Fenner Brockway	304
118.	Review of Trials in Burma by Maurice Collis	306
119.	Review of Glimpses and Reflections by John Galsworthy	307
120.	Letter to Cyril Connolly	309
121.	Letter to Jack Common	310
122.	Letter to Stephen Spender	311
123.	Letter to Stephen Spender	312
124.	Letter to Jack Common	314
125.	Letter to Geoffrey Gorer	315
126.	Notes on the Spanish Militias	316
127.	Letter to Cyril Connolly	328
128.	Letter to Jack Common	329
129.	Letter to the Editor of the New English Weekly	330
130.	Review of Assignment in Utopia by Eugene Lyons	332
131.	Review of The Freedom of the Streets by Jack Common	335
132.	Why I Joined the Independent Labour Party	336
133.	Letter to Jack Common	338
134.	Review of The Civil War in Spain by Frank Jellinek	340
135.	Letter to Cyril Connolly	343
136.	Review of Searchlight on Spain by the Duchess of Atholl	344
137.	Letter to Ida Mabel Blair	347
138.	Review of The Communist International by Franz Borkenau	348
139.	Letter to Jack Common	351
140.	Letter to Jack Common	352
141.	Letter to Jack Common	355
142.	Letter to John Sceats	357
143.	Letter to John Sceats	360
144.	Letter to Cyril Connolly	362
145.	Letter to Frank Jellinek	363
146.	Letter to Jack Common	367
	1939
147.	Review of Power: A New Social Analysis by Bertrand Russell	375
148.	Letter to Herbert Read	377
149.	Review of Russia under Soviet Rule by N. de Basily	378
150.	Letter to Geoffrey Gorer	381
151.	Review of Communism and Man by F. J. Sheed	383
152.	Letter to Herbert Read	385
153.	Marrakech	387
154.	Letter to Jack Common	393
155.	Not Counting Niggers	394
156.	Review of Stendhal by F. C. Green	398
157.	Democracy in the British Army	401
	1940
158.	Letter to Victor Gollancz	409
159.	Letter to Geoffrey Gorer	410
160.	Review of The Last Days of Madrid by S. Casado	411
161.	Letter to David H. Thomson	413
162.	Charles Dickens	413
163.	Boys' Weeklies and Frank Richards's Reply	460
164.	Inside the Whale	493
165.	Letter to Geoffrey Gorer	527
166.	Letter to Humphry House	529
167.	The Limit to Pessimism	533
168.	My Country Right or Left	535
Appendix I	Books by or containing contributions by George Orwell	541
Appendix II	Chronology	543
	Index	553