George Orwell Always in the News: Number 4

Orwell’s Pamphlet Collection

An index to George Orwell’s pamphlet collection is available on the British Library website:

http://www.bl.uk/pdf/orwell-pamphlets-inventory-final.pdf

While it has the drawback of being a PDF, so it can be read, but it cannot be sorted or filtered, and that consequently volumes from the same series appear on many different pages, and that it is not so easy to find volumes on a similar subject, it is a good starting place for anyone interested in seeing what Orwell collected or was sent. In one case, his Tribune articles show, Orwell received a work on which his informant had written “Burn when read”. I wonder if that can be found in the collection now.

The BL also has an article on the subject: ‘George Orwell’s Loft: The author’s own collection of pamphlets’ by Andy Simons.

http://www.bl.uk/pdf/george-orwells-loft.pdf

By LJH