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Homage to Catalonia (collins Classics)
George Orwell
HarperCollins Publishers · Paperback · January 21, 2021
Reading lane: Literature & History
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Why This Clicks
Politics, Lived
A layered read for anyone tracing politics through lived experience and literary style.
Come here for
- memoir with political weather
- classic prose, unsentimental and clear
Expect
- historical perspective without tidy closure
- Orwell’s spare, sharply observed voice
Book Details
- Authors
- George Orwell
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Published
- January 21, 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Literature & History · Politics in Literature
- Reading lane
- Literature & History
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Publisher Categories
Lives in History
Military Lives
20th-Century History
Spanish & Portuguese History
About This Book
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. In 1936, George Orwell volunteered as a soldier in the Spanish Civil War. In Homage to Catalonia , first published just before the outbreak of World War II, Orwell documents the chaos and bloodshed of that moment in history and the voices of those who fought against rising fascism. His experience of the civil war would spark a significant change in his own political views, which readers...
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