Homage to Catalonia

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โ€œOne of Orwellโ€™s very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War.โ€โ€”The New Yorker

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In 1936, originally intending merely to report on the Spanish Civil War as a journalist, George Orwell found himself embroiled as a participantโ€”as a member of the Workersโ€™ Party of Marxist Unity. Fighting against the Fascists, he described in painfully vivid and occasionally comic detail life in the trenchesโ€”with a โ€œdemocratic armyโ€ composed of men with no ranks, no titles, and often no weaponsโ€”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.
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Considered one of the finest works by a man V.ย S. Pritchett called โ€œthe wintry conscience of a generation,โ€ย Homage to Cataloniaย is both Orwellโ€™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 Orwellโ€™s views on the Spanish Civil War.
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โ€œNo one except George Orwell .ย .ย . made the violence and self-dramatization of Spain so burning and terrible.โ€โ€” Alfred Kazin,ย New York Times
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โ€œA wise book, one that once read will never be forgotten.โ€โ€”Chicago Sunday Tribune

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National Review Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Century
 
โ€œOne of Orwellโ€™s very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War.โ€โ€”
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 participantโ€”as a member of the Workersโ€™ Party of Marxist Unity. Fighting against the Fascists, he described in painfully vivid and occasionally comic detail life in the trenchesโ€”with a โ€œdemocratic armyโ€ composed of men with no ranks, no titles, and often no weaponsโ€”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 โ€œthe wintry conscience of a generation,โ€ Homage to Catalonia is both Orwellโ€™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 Orwellโ€™s views on the Spanish Civil War.
 
โ€œNo one except George Orwell . . . made the violence and self-dramatization of Spain so burning and terrible.โ€โ€” Alfred Kazin, New York Times
 
โ€œA wise book, one that once read will never be forgotten.โ€โ€”Chicago Sunday Tribune
 
GEORGE ORWELL was born in 1903 in India. He served with the Imperial Police in Burma and worked various jobs before joining the Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. Orwell was the author of six novels (including Animal Farm and 1984) as well as numerous essays and nonfiction works. He died in 1950.

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About the Author

George Orwell (1903โ€“1950), the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, was an English novelist, essayist, and critic. He was born in India and educated at Eton. After service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, he returned to Europe to earn his living by writing. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of 1984 (1949), which brought him worldwide fame. 

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