George Orwell bibliography 1958.) His publisher followed up these anthologies with "Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays" in 1950, "England Your England and Other Essays" in 1953—which was revised as "Such, Such Were the Joys"—and "Collected Essays" in 1961. The first significant publications in the United States were Doubleday's "A Collection of Essays by George Orwell" from 1954, 1956's "The Orwell Reader, Fiction, Essays, and Reportage" from Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, and Penguin's "Selected Essays" in 1957; re-released in 1962 with the title "Inside the Whale and Other Essays" and in abridged form as "Why I Write" in 2005 as a part of the
George Orwell spent time in Wallington and Southwold working on a Dickens essay and it was in July 1939 that Orwell's father, Richard Blair, died. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Orwell's wife Eileen started working in the Censorship Department of the Ministry of Information in central London, staying during the week with her family in Greenwich. Orwell also submitted his name to the Central Register for war work, but nothing transpired. "They won't have me in the army, at any rate at present, because of my lungs", Orwell told Geoffrey Gorer. He returned to Wallington, and in late 1939