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Contents: Shooting an elephant -- A hanging -- How the poor die -- Lear, Tolstoy and the fool -- Politics vs. literature: an examination of "Gulliver's travels" -- Politics and the English language -- Reflections on Gandhi -- The prevention of literature -- Second thoughts on James Burnham -- I write as I please: The sporting spirit -- Decline of the English murder -- Some thoughts on the common toad -- A good word for the Vicar of Bray -- Confessions of a book reviewer -- Books vs. cigarettes -- Good bad books -- Nonsense poetry -- Riding down from Bangor.
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- PublisherSecker and Warburg
- Publication date1950
- ISBN 10 129949594X
- ISBN 13 9781299495944
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages212
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