The Moon Under Water

This article is about the George Orwell essay. For the Ryan Cabrera album, see The Moon Under Water (album).

The Moon Under Water, Watford. One of many pubs named after Orwell's description.

"The Moon Under Water" is a 1946 essay by George Orwell, originally published as the Saturday Essay in the Evening Standard on 9 February 1946,[1] in which he provided a detailed description of his ideal public house, the fictitious "Moon Under Water". It was Orwell's last contribution to the Evening Standard.[2]

  1. ^ "What's your perfect pub?" The Guardian. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
  2. ^ Smothered Under Journalism, Collected Works, Volume XVIII p. 100