CONDITION NOTES Some sticker residue on front, easy removal with a little elbow grease. Has a handwritten dedication behind the front cover. Here, in four volumes, is the best selection of Orwell’s nonfiction writing now available, a trove of letters, essays, reviews, and journalism that is breathtaking in its scope and eclectic passions. AN AGE LIKE THIS collects Orwell's essential early writings, including material that would later emerge in Down and Out in Paris and London, as well as observations on marriage, reviews of Henry Miller and J. B. Priestley, reports from the Spanish Civil War, an examination of the meaning and value of Charles Dickens, and notes on the early years of the Second World War.