Shooting an Elephant
Author: Orwell, George
ISBN: 9780241515006
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2021
Pages: 48
Dimensions: 180mm x 111mm x 3mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A brilliant indictment of the imperial project from George Orwell, a master of the essay form
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.
ISBN: 9780241515006
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2021
Pages: 48
Dimensions: 180mm x 111mm x 3mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A brilliant indictment of the imperial project from George Orwell, a master of the essay form
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.
