{"product_id":"homage-to-catalonia-paperback-5","title":"Homage to Catalonia - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeorge Orwell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNational Review \u003c\/em\u003eTop Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Century\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"One of Orwell's very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War.\"--\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Considered one of the finest works by a man V. S. Pritchett called \"the wintry conscience of a generation,\" \u003cem\u003eHomage to Catalonia\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"No one except George Orwell . . . made the violence and self-dramatization of Spain so burning and terrible.\"-- Alfred Kazin, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A wise book, one that once read will never be forgotten.\"--\u003cem\u003eChicago Sunday Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNational Review \u003c\/i\u003eTop Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Century\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e One of Orwell s very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War. \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Considered one of the finest works by a man V.S. Pritchett called the wintry conscience of a generation, \u003ci\u003eHomage to Catalonia\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e No one except George Orwell ... made the violence and self-dramatization of Spain so burning and terrible. Alfred Kazin, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A wise book, one that once read will never be forgotten. \u003ci\u003eChicago Sunday Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eAnimal Farm \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c\/i\u003e) as well as numerous essays and nonfiction works. He died in 1950.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGEORGE 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 is the author of six novels (including \u003ci\u003eAnimal Farm \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c\/i\u003e) as well as numerous essays and nonfiction works. 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