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Shooting an elephant / George Orwell.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
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Field name	Details
ISBN	9780241515006 (paperback)
Name	Orwell, George, 1903-1950 author.
Title	Shooting an elephant / George Orwell.
Published	London : Penguin Books, 2021.
Published	©1988
Description	32 pages ; 19 cm
Notes	'Shooting an Elephant' first published by New Writing, 1936, and reprinted in Penguin New Writing, November 1940. 'A Hanging' first published in The Adelphi, August 1931. 'The Spike' first published in The Adelphi, April 1931.
Contents	Shooting an elephant -- A hanging -- The spike.
Summary	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.
Subjects	English essays
Genre	Essays
Links to Related Works	Subject References: English essays . Essays . See Also: Australian essays . Authors: Orwell, George, 1903-1950 .