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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 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 "democracy 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 described as 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.
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English Personal narratives, Communism, Travel, In library, Spain Civil War, 1936-1939, Politics and government, British Personal narratives, English Authors, Personal narratives, Accessible book, Récits personnels, Correspondence, Journeys, open_syllabus_project, History, Re cits personnels, Histoire, Politique et gouvernement, Spain, Protected DAISY, Política y gobierno, Soldiers, BiographyShowing 8 featured editions. View all 100 editions?
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Homage to Catalonia
2015, Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Homage to Catalonia: and looking back on the Spanish war
1966, Penguin Books
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