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Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell (Paperback, 2021)

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Shooting an Elephant [Paperback] Orwell, George. killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd, solely to avoid looking like. 2,206 in Cultural History of London. ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 06. ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0241515009.

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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.