George Orwell bibliography republished by Penguin Books in 1983, and reprinted in Penguin Classics 2000 and 2009. Since the publication of Davison's corrected critical edition, John Carey's thorough "Essays" was released on 15 October 2002, as a part of the Everyman's Library and George Packer edited two collections for Houghton Mifflin, released on 13 October 2008—"All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays" and "Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays". Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus edited a four volume collection of Orwell's writings, "The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell", divided into four volumes: "The Complete Works of George Orwell" is a twenty-volume series,
George Orwell saw some action in a night attack on the Nationalist trenches where he chased an enemy soldier with a bayonet and bombed an enemy rifle position. In April, Orwell returned to Barcelona. Wanting to be sent to the Madrid front, which meant he "must join the International Column", he approached a Communist friend attached to the Spanish Medical Aid and explained his case. "Although he did not think much of the Communists, Orwell was still ready to treat them as friends and allies. That would soon change." This was the time of the Barcelona May Days and Orwell was caught