Homage to Catalonia
(Book)
Author:
Contributors:
Series:
Published:
San Diego : Harcourt Brace & Co., c1980.
Format:
Book
Physical Desc:
xxiii, 232 pages ; 21 cm.
Status:
Description
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's brutally honest account of his experience as a militiaman during the Spanish Civil War. In the last days of 1936, Spain was five months into a bitter civil war, in which volunteers from many countries were helping the elected government of the Spanish Republic battle a military coup led by General Francisco Franco and backed by Hitler and Mussolini. Some foreigners flocking to Spain had come for another reason: the northeast part of the country, particularly Catalonia, was in the midst of the most far-reaching social revolution ever seen in Western Europe. Workers had taken over factories and peasants the large estates; waiters were running restaurants and trolley drivers the transport systems. Municipal garbage trucks carried anarchist slogans. Hundreds of idealistic visitors wanted to take part in a revolution that came not, as in Stalin's Russia, from the top down, but from the bottom up. In 1936, George Orwell, intending to report on the Spanish Civil War as a journalist, quickly found himself embroiled as a participant - as a member of the Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista (POUM), or the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification - an independent leftist group with its own militia at the front. Fighting against the Fascists, Orwell described in painfully vivid and occasionally comic detail life in the trenches. 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. Orwell's experience was a great influence on his political development and his subsequent work, leading him to become a dystopian writer.
Copies
Location
Call Number
Status
Hamden/Miller Adult Nonfiction 3rd Floor
946.081/ORW
On Shelf
North Haven Adult Nonfiction
946.081 Orwell, George
On Shelf
Norwich/Otis Adult Fiction
F ORWELL c.2
On Shelf
More Details
Language:
English
ISBN:
0156421178 (Harvest : pbk.)
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)
Orwell, G., & Trilling, L. (1980). Homage to Catalonia. San Diego, Harcourt Brace & Co.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Orwell, George, 1903-1950 and Lionel Trilling. 1980. Homage to Catalonia. San Diego, Harcourt Brace & Co.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Orwell, George, 1903-1950 and Lionel Trilling, Homage to Catalonia. San Diego, Harcourt Brace & Co, 1980.
MLA Citation (style guide)Orwell, George and Lionel Trilling. Homage to Catalonia. San Diego, Harcourt Brace & Co, 1980.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
Staff View
Grouped Work ID:
f6671a91-00e3-eb3c-a411-17ffb19df9e0
Record Information
Last Sierra Extract Time | Apr 24, 2024 09:38:14 PM |
---|---|
Last File Modification Time | Apr 24, 2024 09:38:44 PM |
Last Grouped Work Modification Time | Apr 24, 2024 10:08:32 PM |
MARC Record
LEADER | 01436cam 2200337 i 4500 | ||
---|---|---|---|
001 | ocm11925923 | ||
005 | 20040122190026.0 | ||
008 | 000229r19801952cau 000 0aeng | ||
010 | |a 00265321 | ||
020 | |a 0156421178 (Harvest : pbk.) | ||
040 | |a DLC|c DLC|d DLC | ||
043 | |a e-sp---|a e-uk-en | ||
050 | 0 | 0 | |a DP269.9|b .O713 1980 |
082 | 0 | 0 | |a 946.081/092|2 21 |
100 | 1 | |a Orwell, George,|d 1903-1950. | |
245 | 1 | 0 | |a Homage to Catalonia /|c George Orwell ; [with an introduction by Lionel Trilling]. |
260 | |a San Diego :|b Harcourt Brace & Co.,|c c1980. | ||
300 | |a xxiii, 232 p. ;|c 21 cm. | ||
490 | 0 | |a A harvest book | |
600 | 1 | 0 | |a Orwell, George,|d 1903-1950|x Travel|z Spain|z Catalonia. |
650 | 0 | |a Soldiers|z Spain|v Biography. | |
650 | 0 | |a Authors, English|y 20th century|v Biography. | |
651 | 0 | |a Spain|x History|y Civil War, 1936-1939|v Personal narratives, British. | |
651 | 0 | |a Catalonia (Spain)|x History|y 20th century. | |
700 | 1 | |a Trilling, Lionel,|d 1905-1975. | |
856 | 4 | 2 | |3 Publisher description|u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/har041/00265321.html |
907 | |a .b17113192 | ||
945 | |y .i52653511|i 31200500030241|l hmanb|s -|h |u 18|x 1|w 0|v 6|t 2|z 07-18-14|o -|a 946.081/ORW | ||
945 | |y .i53140837|i 21203646716|l nwaf|s -|h |u 4|x 0|w 0|v 2|t 16|z 10-07-14|o -|a F ORWELL c.2 | ||
945 | |y .i56694568|i 31216002211204|l nhan|s -|h |u 3|x 2|w 0|v 1|t 2|z 05-17-16|o -|a 946.081 Orwell, George | ||
998 | |e -|d a |f eng|a hm|a nh|a nw |