George Orwell bibliography in 2006, with a paperback published on 25 September 2007. In 2011, Davison's selection of letters and journal entries were published as "George Orwell: A Life in Letters" and "Diaries" by Harvill Secker. A selection by Davison from Orwell's journalism and other writings were published by Harvill Secker in 2014 under the title "Seeing Things as They Are". After his first publication—the poem "Awake! Young Men of England", published in the "Henley and South Oxfordshire Standard" in 1914—Orwell continued to write for his school publications "The Election Times" and "College Days"/"The Colleger". He also experimented with writing for several years
George Orwell "self-interested." Literary critic James Wood wrote that in the struggle, as he saw it, between Christianity and humanism, "Orwell was on the humanist side, of course—basically an unmetaphysical, English version of Camus's philosophy of perpetual godless struggle." Orwell's writing was often explicitly critical of religion, and Christianity in particular. He found the church to be a "selfish [...] church of the landed gentry" with its establishment "out of touch" with the majority of its communicants and altogether a pernicious influence on public life. In their 1972 study, "The Unknown Orwell", the writers Peter Stansky and William Abrahams noted that at