title: Such, Such Were the Joys and Other Essays
author:  George Orwell 
description: GEORGE ORWELL (1903-1950), the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, was an English novelist, essayist, and critic. He was born in India and educated at Eton. After service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, he returned to Europe to earn his living by writing and became notable for his simplicity of style and his journalistic or documentary approach to fiction.
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  # A Collection of Essays
  
  
  
  
  
  # George Orwell
  
  
  
  
  
  [Such, Such Were the Joys . . .](../Text/01%20e_joys_split_000.htm)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Charles Dickens](../Text/02%20e_chd_split_000.htm)
  
  
  
  
  
  [The Art of Donald McGill](../Text/03%20e_mcgill.htm)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Rudyard Kipling](../Text/04%20e_rkip.htm)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Raffles and Miss Blandish](../Text/05%20e_bland.htm)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Shooting an Elephant](../Text/06%20e_eleph.htm)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Politics and the English Language](../Text/07%20e_polit.htm)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Reflections on Gandhi](../Text/08%20e_gandhi.htm)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Marrakech](../Text/09%20e_mar.htm)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Looking Back on the Spanish War](../Text/10%20esw_1_split_000.htm)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Inside the Whale](../Text/11%20e_itw_split_000.htm)
  
  
  
  
  
  [England Your England](../Text/12%20e_eye_split_000.htm)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Boys' Weeklies](../Text/13%20e_boys.htm)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Why I Write](../Text/14%20e_wiw.htm)
  
  
  
  
  
  # Such, Such Were The Joys . . .
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## I
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Soon after I arrived at St Cyprian's (not immediately, but after a week or