A Patriot After All 1940-1941

For the twenty-month period of this volume, there are reproduced 123 book, 38 theatre, and 43 film reviews. Additionally, Inside the Whale, Orwell's first collection of essays, and The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius are reprinted here. Throughout this period Orwell kept a wartime diary, and its entries are printed chronologically with his reviews, essays, and letters. It was in 1941 that Orwell began his series of "London Letters" for Partisan Review, and the volume also includes Orwell's lecture notes for instructing members of his Home Guard platoon.