Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell

Shooting an Elephant

George Orwell

30 minutes first pub 1950 (editions) user-added

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"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 co...

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