Shooting an Elephant
  • Published: 7 January 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241515013
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 48
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Shooting an Elephant

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Paperback
4 Jun 2009
Hardback
6 Jun 2023
EBook
7 Jan 2021
EBook
11 Aug 2003
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A brilliant indictment of the imperial project from George Orwell, a master of the essay form

Shooting an Elephant is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma; wearing the mask of Empire, committing an act of cruelty, 'solely to avoid looking a fool'. One of Orwell's greatest essays, the claustrophobic sense rendered between conquered, conqueror, and conscience would later be drawn out in his two great works of literature, Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm.
  • Published: 7 January 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241515013
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 48
Categories:

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