PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS : SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT PB – GEORGE ORWELL-JEREMY PAXMAN

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.