Shooting an Elephant
And Other Essays
$23.14
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
4 June 2009
Summary
A landmark collection of Orwell’s writings, with a new Introduction by Jeremy Paxman.
‘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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141187396 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141187395 |
| Author: | George Orwell, Jeremy Paxman |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 4 June 2009 |
| Weight: | 292g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
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 Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia.
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