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Shooting An Elephant
George Orwell
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Description for Shooting An Elephant
Paperback. Featuring a collection of non-fiction, this volume includes classics such as 'My Country Right or Left', 'How the Poor Die' and 'Such, Such were the Joys'. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 3. Weight in Grams: 292.
'Shooting an Elephant' is Orwell's searing and painfully 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 a fool'. The other masterly essays in this collection include classics such as 'My Country Right or Left', 'How the Poor Die' and 'Such, Such were the Joys', his memoir of the horrors of public school, as well as discussions of Shakespeare, sleeping rough, boys' weeklies and a spirited defence of English cooking. Opinionated, uncompromising, provocative and hugely entertaining, all show Orwell's unique ability to get to ... Read more
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Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141187396
SKU
V9780141187396
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About George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of ... Read more
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