George Orwell

Shooting an Elephant (MP3-Download)

Ungekürzte Lesung. 22 Min.
Sprecher: Noble, Peter

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Produktbeschreibung

"Shooting an Elephant" describes the experience of the English narrator, possibly Orwell himself, called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant while working as a police officer in Burma. Because the locals expect him to do the job, he does so against his better judgment, his anguish increased by the elephant's slow and painful death. The story is regarded as a metaphor for colonialism as a whole, and for Orwell's view that "when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys." It was first published in the literary magazine New Writing in late 1936 and broadcast by the BBC Home Service on 12 October 1948.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SNR Audio
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781914230448
• Artikelnr.: 70467298

Autorenporträt

Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell , was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia.

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