Homage to Catalonia

Zusatztext Orwell's report is as exciting as it is meditative. With his quiet exactitude the midnight skirmishes, the political issues, and the utter futility of war come clearly into focus. Informationen zum Autor Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in 1903 in India where his father was a civil servant. After studying at Eton, he served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma for several years which inspired his first novel, Burmese Days . After two years in Paris, he returned to England to work as a teacher and then in a bookshop. In 1936 he travelled to Spain to fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, where he was badly wounded. During the Second World War he worked for the BBC. A prolific journalist and essayist, Orwell wrote some of the most influential books in English literature, including the dystopian Nineteen Eighty-Four and his political allegory Animal Farm . He died from tuberculosis in 1950. Klappentext In trench warfare five things are important: firewood, food, tobacco, candles, and the enemy Vorwort Introduced by leading historian Helen Graham, Homage to Catalonia is Orwell’s first-hand account of the Spanish Civil War. Zusammenfassung Introduced by leading historian Helen Graham, Homage to Catalonia is Orwell’s first-hand account of the Spanish Civil War.

Product details

• Authors: George Orwell, George Orwell
• Assisted by: Helen Graham (Introduction)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.03.2021
• EAN: 9781529032710
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-3271-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 101 mm x 157 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Humanities, art, music > History; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, True war & combat stories, Spain, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Autobiography: literary, Autobiography: historical, political and military, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), True war and combat stories, Autobiography: writers, 1936–1939 (Spanish Civil War period)