“Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays“ is a book by George Orwell, an English novelist, essayist, and journalist. He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The collection consists of these titles: Shooting an Elephant, A Hanging, How the Poor Die, Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool, Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s Travels, Politics and the English Language, Reflections on Gandhi, The Prevention of Literature, Second Thoughts on James Burnham, “I Write as I Please"
