Homage to Catalonia
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George Orwell
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After travelling to Spain at the end of 1936 with the intention of working as a correspondent for a British socialist newspaper, thirty-three-year-old George Orwell decided to join the Republican efforts to overturn Franco's Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. Having enrolled in the POUM militias, the young writer was soon forced to experience first-hand the hardships and dangers of trench warfare, before becoming involved in the Barcelona May Day street fighting and nearly being killed by a bullet on his return to the front line. Orwell's initial idealistic dreams of a victorious fight against fascism were gradually tainted by doubt and disillusionment as the divisions and infighting within the Republican coalition became apparent.
Part war memoir, part tract, part exposé, Homage to Catalonia is a pivotal work in Orwell's ouvre, and a key to understanding his political ideas and commitment to the socialist cause. Rejected by Orwell's long-standing publisher, Gollancz, on political grounds, it is here presented in its original version, as published by Secker & Warburg in 1938.
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Homage to Catalonia (Collins Classics) HarperPress 2021 -
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Homage to Catalonia Oxford University Press 2021 -
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Homage to Catalonia (1938) Illustrated Independently Published 2021
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Homage to Catalonia Illustrated Edition Independently Published 2021
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Homage to Catalonia Macmillan Collector's Library 2021 -
Homenaje a Cataluña Debolsillo 2021 -
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Homage to Catalonia (1938) (Annotated) Independently Published 2021
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Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell Illustrated Independently Published 2021
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Homage to Catalonia Independently Published 2020
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Homage to Catalonia Tingle Books 2020 -
Homage to Catalonia Sanage Publishing House 2020 -
Homage to Catalonia Actuel Editions 2020 -
Homage to Catalonia Woolf Haus Publishing 2020 -
Homage to Catalonia Independently Published 2020
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Homage to Catalonia IndoEuropeanPublishing.com 2020 -
Homenaje a Cataluña Debate 2019 -
Homage to Catalonia Bibliotech Press 2018 -
Homage to Catalonia Harvill Secker 2018 -
Omaggio alla Catalogna Mondadori 2016 -
Homage to Catalonia Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011 -
Homenatge a Catalunya Labutxaca 2010 -
Homenagem à Catalunha Antígona 2007 -
Hołd dla Katalonii i inne teksty o hiszpańskiej wojnie domowej Fundacja Aletheia 2006 -
Homage to Catalonia Penguin Books 2003 -
Omaggio alla Catalogna Mondadori 1993 -
Katalonya'ya Selam Alan Yayıncılık 1985 -
Homage to Catalonia Harvest Book 1980 -
Homenaje a Cataluña. Ariel 1970 -
Homage to Catalonia Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers 1969
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Homage to Catalonia Sahara Publisher Books 1938