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George Orwell
Shooting an Elephant

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”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.

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Format EPUB ● Pages 48 ● ISBN 9780241515013 ● Publisher Penguin Books Ltd ● Published 2021 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 7715245 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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