About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: Essays by Anthony Burgess, Essays by George Orwell, Essays by Jonathan Swift, Essays by Joseph Conrad, A Modest Proposal, Drapier's Letters, Such, Such Were the Joys, Politics and the English Language, London Letters, Notes on Nationalism, Inside the Whale, Suspiria de Profundis, How the Poor Die, The Prevention of Literature, Shooting an Elephant, England Your England, The Art of Donald McGill, Second Thoughts on James Burnham, Spilling the Spanish Beans, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, As I Please, Recollections of the Lake Poets, Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool, Essays of Elia, Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels, The Wimsey Papers, Epic Pooh, My Country Right or Left, One Man's Chorus: The Uncollected Writings, Poetry and the Microphone, Bookshop Memories, Why I Write, A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray, A Hanging, The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius, Books v. Cigarettes, Some Thoughts on the Common Toad, Decline of the English Murder, Riding Down from Bangor, The Moon Under Water, Boys' Weeklies, On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth, The Politics of Starvation, Pleasure Spots, Confessions of a Book Reviewer, Popular Fallacies, Last Essays, Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985, Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting, The Spike, Raffles and Miss Blandish, On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts, A Nice Cup of Tea, The Ladies' Defence, The English People, An Essay on Censorship. Excerpt: Drapier's Letters is the collective name for a series of seven pamphlets written between 1724 and 1725 by the Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, Jonathan Swift, to arouse public opinion in Ireland against the imposition of a privately minted copper coinage which Swift believed to be of inferior quality. William Wood was granted letters...
