‘Down the Mine’ is an essay by George Orwell (1903-50), originally published as the second chapter of his 1937 book The Road to Wigan Pier but later reprinted as a separate essay. In ‘Down the Mine’, Orwell describes his experience of going down an English coal mine to see the […]
‘A Hanging’ is a short essay by George Orwell. However, to this simple statement we should probably add two caveats. One is the difficulty of categorisation, when Orwell himself described this ‘essay’ as ‘a story’, suggesting it was fiction rather than an account of a real-life event. The other caveat […]
‘Decline of the English Murder’ is one of a number of famous essays by George Orwell which appeared in something of an annus mirabilis for him, 1946, just after the end of the Second World War. But ‘Decline of the English Murder’ is a particularly intriguing case because it sees […]