George ORWELL (pseud. for Eric Blair, 1903 - 1950) ESSAYS and REVIEWS "Charles Dickens" written in 1939 collected in Inside the whale (1940) "Charles Reade" from New Statesman and Nation (1940-aug-17) "Rudyard Kipling" (Review of A Choice of Kipling's Verse, T.S. Eliot, editor) from Critical essays (1946) originally from Horizon (1942-feb) "Mark Twain - the licensed jester" from Tribune (1943-nov-26) "Decline of the English murder" from Shooting an elephant (1950) originally from Tribune (1946-feb-15) "Raffles and Miss Blandish" from Horizon (1944-oct)