A Nice Cup of Tea (http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/index.cgi/work/essays/cupoftea.html):
When I look through my own recipe for the perfect cup of tea, I find no fewer than eleven outstanding points. On perhaps two of them there would be pretty general agreement, but at least four others are acutely controversial.
Why I Write (http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/index.cgi/work/essays/write.html):
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.
There are many other examples of his essays there, including the infamous Shooting an Elephant (http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/index.cgi/work/essays/elephant.html) and A Hanging (http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/index.cgi/work/essays/hanging.html).
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Inside the Whale
Date: 2004-03-15 02:49 pm (UTC)A Nice Cup of Tea (http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/index.cgi/work/essays/cupoftea.html):
Why I Write (http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/index.cgi/work/essays/write.html):
There are many other examples of his essays there, including the infamous Shooting an Elephant (http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/index.cgi/work/essays/elephant.html) and A Hanging (http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/index.cgi/work/essays/hanging.html).
Mags (http://www.moosiferjonesgrouch.blogspot.com)