Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (English) Paperback Book

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National Review Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Century. "One of Orwell's very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War." -- The New Yorker

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A National Review Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Century "One of Orwell's very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War."--The New Yorker In 1936, originally intending merely to report on the Spanish Civil War as a journalist, George Orwell found himself embroiled as a participant--as a member of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unity. Fighting against the Fascists, he described in painfully vivid and occasionally comic detail life in the trenches--with a "democratic army" composed of men with no ranks, no titles, and often no weapons--and his near fatal wounding. As the politics became tangled, Orwell was pulled into a heartbreaking conflict between his own personal ideals and the complicated realities of political power struggles. Considered one of the finest works by a man V. S. Pritchett called "the wintry conscience of a generation," Homage to Catalonia is both Orwell's memoir of his experiences at the front and his tribute to those who died in what he called a fight for common decency. This edition features a new foreword by Adam Hochschild placing the war in greater context and discussing the evolution of Orwell's views on the Spanish Civil War. "No one except George Orwell . . . made the violence and self-dramatization of Spain so burning and terrible."-- Alfred Kazin, New York Times "A wise book, one that once read will never be forgotten."--Chicago Sunday Tribune

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A National Review Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Century

Author Biography

GEORGE ORWELL (1903-1950)?was born in India and served with the Imperial Police in Burma before joining the Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. Orwell was the author of six novels?as well as numerous essays and nonfiction works.

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Mariner paperback, 1969 Previous ISBN:

Details ISBN0544382048 Author George Orwell Pages 304 Publisher Mariner Books Language English ISBN-10 0544382048 ISBN-13 9780544382046 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 946.081 Residence US Birth 1903 Death 1950 Short Title HOMAGE TO CATALONIA REV/E Edition Description Revised UK Release Date 2015-05-19 Imprint Mariner Books Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2021-05-16 NZ Release Date 2021-05-16 US Release Date 2021-05-16 Edited by Meglena Zlatkova Affiliation Philipps-Universitat Marburg Germany Position Customer Qualifications MD Year 2021 Publication Date 2021-05-16 Audience General Place of Publication London Imprint US Mariner Books Classics Publisher US HarperCollins We've got this

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