Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays - Orwell Centenary Edition
George Orwell

Reissue

Paperback (05 Jun 2003)


Categories: Memoirs Literary Essays


Description
Shooting an Elephant is Orwells 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 or Left, How the Poor Die and Such, Such were the Joys, his memoir of the horrors of public school, as well as discussions of Shakespeare, sleeping rough, boys weeklies and a spirited defence of English cooking. Opinionated, uncompromising, provocative and hugely entertaining, all show Orwells unique ability to get to the heart of any subject.

A collection of witty and incisive non-fiction, George Orwells Shooting an Elephant includes an introduction by Jeremy Paxman in Penguin Modern Classics.


Product details

Format Paperback | 400 pages
Dimensions 129 x 198 x 23mm | 292g
Publication date 16 Feb 2009
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
Language English
Edition Statement New ed.
ISBN10 0141187395
ISBN13 9780141187396
Bestsellers rank 69,250