George Orwell bibliography published in collections during his life—"Inside the Whale and Other Essays" by his original publisher Victor Gollancz Ltd in 1940, and "Critical Essays" by Secker and Warburg in 1946. The latter press also published the collections "Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays" in 1950 (republished by Penguin in 2003) and "England Your England and Other Essays" in 1953. Since his death many collections of essays have appeared, with the first attempt at a comprehensive collection being the four-volume "Collected Essays, Letters and Journalism of George Orwell" edited by Ian Angus and Sonia Brownell, which was published by Secker and Warburg
George Orwell Orwells moved to a seventh-floor flat at Langford Court, St John's Wood, while at Wallington Orwell was "digging for victory" by planting potatoes. In August 1941, Orwell finally obtained "war work" when he was taken on full-time by the BBC's Eastern Service. He supervised cultural broadcasts to India to counter propaganda from Nazi Germany designed to undermine Imperial links. This was Orwell's first experience of the rigid conformity of life in an office, and it gave him an opportunity to create cultural programmes with contributions from T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, E. M. Forster, Ahmed Ali, Mulk Raj Anand, and