by George Orwell · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141187396
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«Shooting an Elephant» is George Orwell's collection of essays, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (400 pages, in English).
The title essay recounts how Orwell, a policeman in colonial Burma, kills an elephant to avoid looking foolish before the crowd. Also included are 'My Country Right or Left', 'How the Poor Die' and 'Such, Such Were the Joys', the latter about the horrors of public school, plus pieces on Shakespeare and English cooking.
This 2003 edition belongs to the Penguin Modern Classics series and includes an introduction by Jeremy Paxman.
Aimed at a general audience, with particular appeal for readers of essays and memoirs about the colonial era.
Eric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism, and support of democratic socialism.
