Homage to Catalonia
eBook - 1969
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 i...deals 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...
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File Size | 357 MB |
ISBN | 9780547416175 |
Release Date | 10/22/1969 |
Kindle Book | |
ASIN | B003K16PFU |
Release Date | 10/22/1969 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
ISBN | 9780547416175 |
Release Date | 10/22/1969 |