Shooting an Elephant

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When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.

George Orwell

Shooting an Elephant

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Original Citation

Orwell, George. "Shooting an Elephant." New Writing, no. 2, Autumn 1936.

Current Citation

Orwell, George. "Shooting and Elephant." The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, vol. 1: An Age Like This 1920-1940. David R. Godine, 2019, no. 88.