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George Orwell

Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays

Publisher: © 1950 Secker & Warburg, GB, London.

The first time published: on October 5, 1950.

Print-run: 7,000 copies.

OCR: Mikhail V. Chernyshev; E-Mail: chernyshev@laban.rs

Contents:

Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays, 1950
Shooting an Elephant, 1936
A Hanging, 1931
How the Poor Die, 1946
Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool, 1947
Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels, 1946
Politics and the English Language, 1946
Reflections on Gandhi, 1949
The Prevention of Literature, 1946
Second Thoughts on James Burnham, 1946
Confessions of a Book Reviewer, 1946
Books vs. Cigarettes, 1946
Good Bad Books, 1945
Nonsense Poetry, 1945
Riding Down from Bangor, 1946
The Sporting Spirit, 1945
Decline of the English Murder, 1946
Some Thoughts on the Common Toad, 1946
A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray, 1946