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 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