England. The birthplace of Charles Darwin, Winston Churchill, Aldous Huxley...the British. They are polite and law-abiding, they always defend the weak, but are faithful to feudal traditions and are biased towards foreign cuisine... They are intolerant of violence, but at the same time they do not see anything wrong in traditional corporal punishment... English character, England itself and the works of its outstanding minds - Rudyard Kipling, T.S. Eliot, Charles Dickens, Henry Miller - under the close attention of George Orwell! Once upon a time, these essays, invariably original, always very personal, were vigorously discussed in the English press and society. But even now, almost 70 years later, reading them is no less interesting!