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Shooting an Elephant

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By (author): George Orwell

George Orwell set out to make political writing into an art, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwells essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. Shooting an Elephant, the fifth in the Orwells Essays series, tells the story of a police officer in Burma who is called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant. Thought to be loosely based on Orwells own experiences in Burma, the tightly written essay weaves together fact and fiction indistinguishably, and leaves the reader contemplating the heavy topic of colonialism, with the words when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys echoing from the page. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 178 x 110mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Jan 2022
  • Publisher: Renard Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781913724665

About George Orwell

Born Eric Arthur Blair (19031950) George Orwell was an English journalist writer and critic. Orwell devoted his life to working against extremism and in his description of how authoritarian regimes pervade our thoughts he gave us a new vocabulary to understand totalitarianism. He is best remembered today for his innumerable essays his novels in particular Animal Farm and 1984 and his longer non-fiction especially The Road to Wigan Pier and Down Out in Paris and London.

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