Shooting an Elephant
Book formats
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Paperback No offers
Book short specifications
- Author
- George Orwell
- Pages
- 48
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Language
- english
- Release date
- January 7, 2021
- ISBN
- 978-0-241-51500-6
- GTIN
- 9780241515006
- Weight, g
- 33
- Publisher's website
- penguin.co.uk
About
'It was a tiny incident in itself, but it gave me a better glimpse than I had had before of the real nature of imperialism — the real motives for which despotic governments act'
Shooting an Elephant was the first piece of writing by George Orwell to be published by Penguin, in 1940. It is a searing and 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 like a fool.