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ORWELL GEORGE HOMAGE TO CATALONIA

This is Orwell's memoir of his experiences during the Spanish Civil War - a groundbreaking work
of dissident literature drawn from vivid personal experience. There are occasions where it pays
better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all... Both a memoir of Orwell's experiences
during the Spanish Civil War and a heartfelt tribute to those who died  Homage to Catalonia is
an extraordinary first-hand record of his time on the frontline. Written with all of the depth
passion and deep human understanding that defines Orwell's writing this is a vivid account of
the battles that were faced by ordinary working people as they fought for both their lives and
their ideologies. Although Orwell was himself near-fatally wounded he finds both bleak and
comic notes in his experience which is recorded with such clarity and depth that this short
work has become one of his best known. 'The finest model of how to write about a foreign
conflict  a war or a revolution... Brilliant reportage' Timothy Garten-Ash '[Orwell] describes
what is happening in Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War in such a way that we are able to
see why he's so upset about Soviet power. His argument is not one of category and concept but
of irresistible observation' Timothy Snyder'When he went to Spain  [Orwell] was an unknown. He
wasn't Hemingway. He wasn't a well-connected intellectual. He just had this amazing eye for
detail. He was an amazing observer  and he could write so powerfully. This book  to me  is just
one of the classics of foreign reporting' Guy Raz

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