'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 o
Shooting An Elephant
β Scribed by Orwell, George
- Book ID
- 106746161
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 7 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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