Inside the Whale and Other Essays

Inside the Whale was published by Victor Gollancz as a book of essays on 11 March 1940. Orwell refers to it as a "book" in part three of the essay. ("While I have been writing this book another European war has broken out."), as well as in letters he wrote to Geoffrey Gorer and Humphry House, an English scholar, the following month.[1] Gollancz initially printed 1,100 copies in March 1940, with some copies destroyed by Nazi bombing of England.

• "Inside the Whale" (1939)
• "Charles Dickens" (1940)
• "Boys' Weeklies" (1940)

A collection of essays with the same title was published in 1962 in the UK by Penguin Books.[2] This edition was a reprint of an earlier collection entitled "Selected Essays" published in 1957. The collection contains the following essays:

• "Inside the Whale"
• "Down the Mine" (a passage from The Road to Wigan Pier)
• "England Your England"
• "Shooting an Elephant"
• "Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool"
• "Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels"
• "Politics and the English Language"
• "The Prevention of Literature"
• "Boys' Weeklies"

• Bibliography of George Orwell

• Inside the Whale and other Essays at Faded Page (Canada)