Shooting an Elephant

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By George Orwell

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 A biting critique of British imperialism, wrapped in a highly personal story about a police officer in colonial Burma.
 
While he is most famous for his long-form fiction, including such works as Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, George Orwell was also an accomplished essayist, and Shooting an Elephant stands as one of his best, and most well known, pieces. Orwell worked as a police officer in Burma earlier in his, and there has been a great deal of debate about whether the story is autobiographical.
 
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Shooting an Elephant