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... Shooting an Elephant " from Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays by George Orwell . Copyright 1945 , 1946 , 1949 , 1950 by Sonia Brownell Orwell . Reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , Inc. , Mrs. Sonia Brownell Orwell ...
... Shooting an Elephant " from Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays by George Orwell . Copyright 1945 , 1946 , 1949 , 1950 by Sonia Brownell Orwell . Reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , Inc. , Mrs. Sonia Brownell Orwell ...
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... Shooting an Elephant , " based on Orwell's experiences in the Imperial Police in Burma , was written in the early 1930s and is the title essay in the collection Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays ( 1950 ) . It exemplifies Orwell's ...
... Shooting an Elephant , " based on Orwell's experiences in the Imperial Police in Burma , was written in the early 1930s and is the title essay in the collection Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays ( 1950 ) . It exemplifies Orwell's ...
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... elephant would never rise again , but he was not dead . He was breathing very rhythmically with long rattling gasps , his great mound of a side painfully rising and falling . His mouth was wide open - I could see far ... SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT.
... elephant would never rise again , but he was not dead . He was breathing very rhythmically with long rattling gasps , his great mound of a side painfully rising and falling . His mouth was wide open - I could see far ... SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT.
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FULKE GREVILLE LORD BROOKE Chorus of Priests | 3 |
THE RIGHT USE OF LANGUAGE | 61 |
The ism of the Modern World | 201 |
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