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Shooting an Elephant: And Other Essays (Penguin Modern Classics) ISBN: 0141187395 ISBN13: 9780141187396 Shooting an Elephant: And Other Essays (Penguin Modern Classics) By: George Orwell Publisher: Penguin Classics Format: Paperback Our Price: 8.27 Discount: 8% RRP: 8.99

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This outstanding collection brings together Orwell's longer, major essays and a fine selection of shorter pieces that includes Shooting an Elephant , My Country Right or Left , Decline of an English Murder and A Hanging . With great originality and wit Orwell unfolds his views on subjects ranging from a revaluation of Charles Dickens to a spirited defence of English cooking. Displaying an almost unrivalled mastery of English plain prose style, Orwell's essays challenge, move and entertain.


Contents:

Why I write
- the spike
- a hanging
- shooting an elephant
- bookshop memories
- Charles Dickens
- boy's weeklies
- my country right or left
- looking back on the Spanish War
- n defense of English cooking
- good bad books
- the sporting spirit
- nonsense poetry
- the prevention of literature
- books versus cigarettes
- decline of the English murder
- some thoughts on the common toad
- confessions of a book reviewer
- politics versus literature - an examination of Gulliver's Travels
- how the poor die
- such, such were the joys
- reflections on Gandhi.


Brief Description:

Brings together the author's longer, major essays and a selection of shorter pieces that includes Shooting an Elephant , My Country Right or Left , Decline of an English Murder and A Hanging . This title unfolds the author's views on subjects ranging from a revaluation of Charles Dickens to a spirited defence of English cooking.

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