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George Orwell Shooting an Elephant: With the Introductory Essay 'Why I Write'

Name: George Orwell Shooting an Elephant: With the Introductory Essay 'Why I Write'
Brand: George Orwell
SKU: 45177852782

by George Orwell

£15.93

GTIN09781528719049

EAN9781528719049

MPN9781528719049

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A semiautobiographical work, this essay by George Orwell recounts the excruciating moment his duties as a police officer serving in Myanmar (formally Burma) required him to shoot an outofcontrol elephant. First published in 1936, Shooting an Elephant is regarded as an influential metaphor for British imperialism. When his time serving as a police officer in BritishBurma results in the narrator, presumed to be Orwell, having to shoot an outofcontrol elephant, he is forced into torment as he witnesses the animals painfully slow death. The essay is an allegorical representation of Orwells belief that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys. This new edition of the classic essay features an introductory piece by the author, Why I Write. | George Orwell Shooting an Elephant: With the Introductory Essay 'Why I Write'

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