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  • By: George Orwell
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'Decline of the English Murder' analyses the kinds of murders depicted in popular media during Orwell's life and why society of the time was obsessed with these grizzly crimes. Tribune published it on 15th February 1946, and Secker and Warburg republished it after his death in Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays in 1952.
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Could still be written about our 21st century obsession with murder and splashy newspaper stories or true crime series about them. An interesting insight into the time.

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