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Coming Up for Air. Homage to Catalonia is a 1938 memoir by English writer George Orwell, in which he accounts his personal experiences and observations while fighting in the Spanish Civil War . Covering the period between December 1936 and June 1937, Orwell recounts Catalonia 's revolutionary fervor during his training in Barcelona, his boredom ...
- 368 (paperback), 248 (hardback)
- George Orwell
- April 1938
- Secker and Warburg (London)
61,327 ratings3,990 reviews. 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. Genres History Nonfiction Politics Classics War Memoir Biography. ...more. 232 pages, Paperback.
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Oct 22, 1980 · It first appeared in 1938, but was coldly received by the left-wing intelligentsia, who regarded Communists as heroes of the war. In Orwell's lifetime "Homage to Catalonia" sold only about fifty copies a year. Many became disillusioned with communism in Spain, but kept silent fearing to harm the Loyalist cause.
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- George Orwell
A memoir of Orwell's experience fighting in the Spanish Civil War as a volunteer for the POUM, a Marxist group affiliated with the Anarchists. He describes the social revolution in Barcelona, the political divisions among the left, and his injury and escape from Spain.
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Homage to Catalonia, autobiographical account by George Orwell of his experience as a volunteer for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, published in 1938. Unlike other foreign intellectual leftists, Orwell and his wife did not join the International Brigades but instead enlisted in the Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification (Partido ...
Jun 5, 2003 · A firsthand account of the brutal conditions of the Spanish Civil War, George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia includes an introduction by Julian Symons.
