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_bORW/S
100 1 _aOrwell, George
_eAuthor
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245 1 0 _aShooting an elephant and other essays /
_cGeorge Orwell.
260 _aLondon :
_bPenguin Classics,
_c1968.
300 _a375 p. ;
_bill. ;
_c21 cm.
520 _a'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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