As I Please 1943 – 1945

Orwell was rejected for service during the Second World War and became literary editor of the left-wing weekly, Tribune. Included in this volume are reviews of works by authors as varied as C. S. Lewis and Arthur Koestler, the newspaper column, “As I Please,” the brilliant essay, “A Nice Cup of Tea,” letters to T. S. Eliot, among others, while trying to convince publishers to take a chance on a book called Animal Farm.