A Hanging

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A Hanging

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George Orwell
Early life: From colonial India to England and Burma
…two brilliant autobiographical sketches, “A Hanging” (1931) and “Shooting an Elephant” (1936), classics of expository prose in which Orwell describes what he saw of “the dirty work of Empire at close quarters” and the dehumanizing effects of imperialism on colonizer and colonized alike.
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…two brilliant autobiographical sketches, “A Hanging” (1931) and “Shooting an Elephant” (1936), classics of expository prose in which Orwell describes what he saw of “the dirty work of Empire at close quarters” and the dehumanizing effects of imperialism on colonizer and colonized alike.
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