George Orwell (1903-50) is known around the world for his satirical novella Animal Farm and his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, but he was arguably at his best in the essay form. Below, we’ve selected and introduced ten of Orwell’s best essays for the interested newcomer to his non-fiction, but there are many more we could have added. What do you think is George Orwell’s greatest essay?

Contents:

• POLITICS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
• NOTES ON NATIONALISM (1945)
• WHY I WRITE (1946)

• Narrator: Peter Coates
• Listening Length: 1 hour 43 minutes 33 seconds