Homage to Catalonia
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Boston : Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
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Book
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First Mariner Books edition.
Physical Desc:
xliv, 250 pages ; 21 cm
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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.
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Guilford Adult Non-Fiction
946.081 ORWELL
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English
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9780544382046
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APA Citation (style guide)
Orwell, G., Hochschild, A., & Trilling, L. (2015). Homage to Catalonia. First Mariner Books edition. Boston, Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Orwell, George, 1903-1950, Adam, Hochschild and Lionel Trilling. 2015. Homage to Catalonia. Boston, Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Orwell, George, 1903-1950, Adam, Hochschild and Lionel Trilling, Homage to Catalonia. Boston, Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
MLA Citation (style guide)Orwell, George, et al. Homage to Catalonia. First Mariner Books edition. Boston, Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
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