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Shooting an Elephant and other Essays

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4

Duration
0H 23min
Language
English
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Category

Classics

The essay describes the experience of the English narrator, possibly Orwell himself, called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant while working as a police officer in Burma. Because the locals expect him to do the job, he does so against his better judgment, his anguish increased by the elephant's slow and painful death.

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Release date

Audiobook: 16 November 2019

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