(P/B) SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT

Παρουσίαση

'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 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 Orwell's unique ability to get to the heart of any subject.
A collection of witty and incisive non-fiction, George Orwell's Shooting an Elephant includes an introduction by Jeremy Paxman in Penguin Modern Classics. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Introduction
Why I Write
The Spike
A Hanging
Shooting an Elephant
Bookshop Memories
Charles Dickens
Boys' Weeklies
My Country Right or Left
Looking Back on the Spanish War
In Defence of English Cooking
Good Bad Books
The Sporting Spirit
Nonsense Poetry
The Prevention of Literature
Books v. Cigarettes
Decline of the English Murder
Some Thoughts on the Common Toad
Confessions of a Book Reviewer
Politics v. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels
How the Poor Die
Such, Such Were the Joys
Reflections on Gandhi
Politics and the English Language