George Orwell
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| Original Title: | Homage to Catalonia |
| ISBN: | 0156421178 (ISBN13: 9780156421171) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | George Orwell, Patrick O'Hara, Douglas Thompson, Bob Smillie, Paddy Donovan, Georges Kopp, Reg Hiddlestone, Douglas Moyle, George Orwell |
| Setting: | Catalonia (Cataluña; Catalunya),1936 |
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In 1936 George Orwell travelled to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fascists. This famous account describes the war and Orwell’s own experiences. Introduction by Lionel Trilling.Point Of Books Homage to Catalonia
| Title | : | Homage to Catalonia |
| Author | : | George Orwell |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 232 pages |
| Published | : | October 22nd 1980 by Harcourt, Inc.(Harvest Book) (first published 1938) |
| Categories | : | History. Nonfiction. Politics. Classics. War. Autobiography. Memoir |
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music: Durutti Column - "Street Fight"(also because there's a small, POUM-hostile extremist-anarchist group called Friends Of Durruti mentioned in the book, who were used as part of false-information war by the government)(my book has intros by Hochschild and Trilling, both very excellent. Two chapters of the book have been appendixed to the end, which I also think as a wise choice, since both are rather political side-comments 1: why and how Communists suppressed the smaller leftist groups 2:Should anyone want to understand why George Orwell, a life long socialist, developed the antipathy to the Soviet Union which informed his best known novels Animal Farm and 1984, then this is the book to read. When Orwell travelled to Spain in December 1936, intending to fight fascism and write about the Spanish Civil War, he stepped into a complex and murky political situation. The left-wing forces supporting the Republican government against the fascist forces led by Franco had different and
Possibly my favourite book ever. I couldn't put it down. This will not be the case for everyone but as I have always had an interest in the Spanish civil war I found Orwell's account brilliant and much better than regular Spanish civil war books. Orwell conveys with great clarity the boredom, confusion, and lies of the Spanish civil war. I would recommend anybody who wants to learn about the Spanish civil war (an extremely complex subject) to first look to this book.
Homage To Catalonia, George OrwellHomage to Catalonia is George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish Civil War. The first edition was published in the United Kingdom in 1938. The book begins in late December 1936. Orwell describes the atmosphere in Barcelona as it appears to him at this time. "The anarchists were still in virtual control of Catalonia and the revolution was still in full swing ... It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where
HEADLINE: For students, here the politics is explained.For you students who have this great book imposed upon you in a syllabus, here is the best help I can give you with regard to Chapters V and XI, which are in some editions included only as Appendices.It is interesting to note that at the outset Orwell himself was nonplussed by the alphabet soup of the political situation in Spain. At first he was at a loss when confronted with the idea of right wing communism as you probably are. It was only
A re-read for me of a book I first read in my early twenties. I recall it made a big impression on me at the time, due to its description of the infighting on the Government side during the Spanish Civil War.Orwell was in his thirties when he went to Barcelona and had already been everything from a Police Superintendent in colonial Burma to a tramp sleeping rough back in Britain. You couldnt say he was lacking in knowledge of life, but he arrived in Spain with an idealistic impression of a war
3 ½ stars.Now, after many false starts In my first attempt at reviewing this, I began by saying This is a first rate source for information on the Spanish Civil War. Wrong!!! It really is a very poor source of information on the SCW. Because it is on a very personal level, and is mostly seen from a very limited and narrow point of view, this is really an almost useless book for learning anything historically significant about the war.So, lets start over. Why is this book so famous? The first
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