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GEORGE ORWELL - GEBRAUCHT HOMAGE TO CATALONIA (...

'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written  directly or
indirectly  against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus
wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War  chronicled in
Homage to Catalonia. Here he brings to bear all the force of his humanity  passion and clarity
describing with bitter intensity the bright hopes and cynical betrayals of that chaotic
episode: the revolutionary euphoria of Barcelona  the courage of ordinary Spanish men and women
he fought alongside  the terror and confusion of the front  his near-fatal bullet wound and the
vicious treachery of his supposed allies. A firsthand account of the brutal conditions of the
Spanish Civil War  George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia includes an introduction by Julian
Symons in Penguin Modern Classics.

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