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Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell
Shooting an Elephant

George Orwell

Shooting an Elephant

George Orwell

17 pages digital 1936

19 editions

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Shooting an Elephant is Orwell’s searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma; killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd ‘solely to avoid looking a fool’. Opinionated, uncompromising, provocati...

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