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Shooting an elephant, and other essays.
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Shooting an elephant, and other essays.

Author: George Orwell
Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace [1950]
Edition/Format: Book : English : [1st American ed.View all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: George Orwell
OCLC Number: 366575
Description: 200 p. 21 cm.
Contents: Shooting an elephant -- A hanging -- How the poor die -- Lear, Tolstoy and the fool -- Politics vs. literature: an examination of "Gulliver's travels" -- Politics and the English language -- Reflections on Gandhi -- The prevention of literature -- Second thoughts on James Burnham -- I write as I please: The sporting spirit -- Decline of the English murder -- Some thoughts on the common toad -- A good word for the Vicar of Bray -- Confessions of a book reviewer -- Books vs. cigarettes -- Good bad books -- Nonsense poetry -- Riding down from Bangor.

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