A Collection of Essays by
George Orwell

'Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays' (front cover)

A Doubleday Anchor Book, 1954
Print run: 7,000 copies

Contents:

  1. Such, Such Were the Joys, 1947
  2. Charles Dickens, 1939
  3. The Art of Donald McGill, 1941
  4. Rudyard Kipling, 1942
  5. Raffles and Miss Blandish, 1944
  6. Shooting an Elephant, 1936
  7. Politics and the English Language, 1946
  8. Reflections on Gandhi, 1949
  9. Marrakech, 1939
  10. Looking Back on the Spanish War, 1943
  11. Inside the Whale, 1940
  12. England Your England, 1941
  13. Boys' Weeklies, 1940
  14. Why I Write, 1946

The first edition (front cover)