Homage to Catalonia

Homage to Catalonia

First Mariner Books edition

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Publisher's Synopsis

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

Book information

ISBN: 9780544382046
Publisher: HMH Books
Imprint: Mariner Books
Pub date:
Edition: First Mariner Books edition
DEWEY: 946.081092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 304
Weight: 244g
Height: 205mm
Width: 135mm
Spine width: 20mm