TY  - BOOK
AU  - Orwell,George
TI  - Shooting an elephant and other essays
SN  - 9780141187396 (pbk.)
U1  - 824 
PY  - 1968///
CY  - London
PB  - Penguin Classics
KW  - English Essays
N2  - '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
ER  -