Shooting an elephant and other essays / George Orwell.

By:

Orwell, George [Author]

Material type:

TextLanguage: English Publication details: London : Penguin Classics, 1968.Description: 375 p. ; ill. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780141187396 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

English Essays

DDC classification:

824 ORW/S

Summary: 'It was a tiny incident in itself, but it gave me a better glimpse than I had had before of the real nature of imperialism - the real motives for which despotic governments act' Shooting an Elephant was the first piece of writing by George Orwell to be published by Penguin, in 1940. It is a searing and 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 like a fool.

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	General Books	Central Library, IIT Bhubaneswar	Central Library, IIT Bhubaneswar	GEN		824 ORW/S (Browse shelf(Opens below))					Available			11201

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'It was a tiny incident in itself, but it gave me a better glimpse than I had had before of the real nature of imperialism - the real motives for which despotic governments act' Shooting an Elephant was the first piece of writing by George Orwell to be published by Penguin, in 1940. It is a searing and 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 like a fool.

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