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- 2021
- year of publication
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- Length
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- E-book
- Format
- Publisher
- Penguin
- ISBN-13
- 978-02-4151-501-3
- EAN
- 9780241515013
- Publication date
- 2021-01-07
- Book
- Shooting an Elephant · 4 editions
The publisher on this edition
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 .
