乔治·奥威尔不但是最著名的反极权小说作者，还是著名的英语文体家、第一流的散文家以及头脑清醒且目光犀利的文学评论家。《英国式谋杀的衰落》以谈文论艺为主，收入《狄更斯》、《托尔斯泰与莎士比亚》等名篇和《鲁德亚德·吉卜林》等备受争议的文论，加上《为英国式烹调辩》一类轻松的小品文，比较全面地体现了奥威尔作为文学评论家的风采。(George Orwell is not only the most famous author in writing anti-totalitarian novels, but also the well-known English stylist, the first-class essayist and the sober-minded and sharp-eyed literary critic. Decline of English Murder has themed at the literature and art and covered the famous books such as Dickens and Tolstoy and Shakespeare and the highly controversial literary theory Rudyard Kipling together with the relaxing essays such as Debate for the British Cooking to fully reflect the talent of Orwell as a literary critic.)