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
Why Orwell Matters induced to return to the source." George Packer of "The Independent" gave the book a mixed review, however, remarking, ""Why Orwell Matters" is presented by its publisher as a case of posthumous affinity between writers across generations, but critic and subject turn out to be mismatched, and it's the critic who suffers as a result." Despite praising many of Hitchens's analyses of Orwell, Packer added, "For a slender book, "Why Orwell Matters" is oddly unfocused and hard to get through. What Hitchens has to say is what a sympathetic reader of Orwell would want said. But he never sustains a