Homage To Catalonia

George Orwell

• Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
• Year: 1969
• Print ISBN: 9780544382046
• eBook ISBN: 9780547416175
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Military Biographies
• Index: Literature

A National Review Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Century. "One of Orwell's very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War." — The New Yorker

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.

Considered one of the finest works by a man V. S. Pritchett called "the wintry conscience of a generation," Homage to Catalonia 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.

"No one except George Orwell . . . made the violence and self-dramatization of Spain so burning and terrible." — Alfred Kazin, New York Times

"A wise book, one that once read will never be forgotten." — Chicago Sunday Tribune

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Contents
• Copyright
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Epigraph
• Chapter I
• Chapter II
• Chapter III
• Chapter IV
• Chapter V
• Chapter VI
• Chapter VII
• Chapter VIII
• Chapter IX
• Chapter X
• Chapter XI
• Chapter XII
• Appendix I
• Appendix II
• About the Author
• Footnotes