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Short stories
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.
© 2019 Storyside IN (Audiobook): 9789388286664
Release date
Audiobook: 16 November 2019
4
Short stories
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.
© 2019 Storyside IN (Audiobook): 9789388286664
Release date
Audiobook: 16 November 2019
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Sunitha
8 Oct 2020
Such brutal honesty...the white man's burden...George Orwell...one of the voices of our collective conscience from the early days
Nowfal
3 Sept 2021
Great short story
English
India