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Inside the Whale
"Inside the Whale" is an essay in three parts written by George Orwell in 1940. It is primarily a review of ''Tropic of Cancer'' by Henry Miller with Orwell discursing more widely over English literature in the 1920s and 1930s. The biblical story of Jonah and the whale is used as a metaphor for accepting experience without seeking to change it, Jonah inside the whale being comfortably protected from the problems of the outside world. It was published, alongside two other pieces by Orwell, 11 March 1940 by Gollancz in Orwell's first collection of essays, ''Inside the Whale and Other Essays''.
==Background==
Henry Miller's ''Tropic of Cancer'' was published in 1934 by Obelisk Press in Paris.〔Henry Miller ''Tropic of Cancer'' Obelsik Press 1934〕 Set in France (primarily Paris) during the 1930s, Miller tells of his life as a struggling writer. There are many passages explicitly describing the narrator's sexual encounters, but the book does not solely focus on this subject. Orwell had also lived in Paris for 18 months in 1928 to 1929 and used his experiences to write ''Down and Out in Paris and London''.
Orwell had dinner with Henry Miller in Paris in December 1936 when on his way to take part in the Spanish Civil War. Miller gave Orwell a corduroy jacket which was a more suitable outfit for fighting than the blue suit Orwell was wearing.〔Alfred Perles ''My Friend Henry Miller'' Neville Spearman 1955〕
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