Homage to Catalonia

¿ A new edition, with clear readable text¿ A new Life & Works written for this edition¿ Includes a Glossary of Gothic, Victorian and Literary terms¿ Part of our series of curated Fantastic Fiction classics

About the author

George Orwell, the pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair, was born in Bengal, India, in 1903. He was educated at Eton, became a policeman in Burma but suffered and studied poverty. His great works, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, are a product of his hatred of totalitarianism. His legacy of writing and political thought is much admired today.

Dr. Jaron Murphy is Principal Academic in Communication, Journalism and Literature at Bournemouth University. An award-winning journalist, he holds a DPhil in Literature from the University of Oxford. His scholarship on Orwell includes the chapter ‘Orwell the Journalist’ for the impending Oxford Handbook of George Orwell (OUP).

Summary

With a new introduction, this is a personal record of Orwell's growing disillusionment with the Spanish Civil War, gathering themes he would later explore to perfection in Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Having joined international leftist forces in Barcelona, Orwell grew frustrated by the repressive totalitarianism of Stalin's communism.

Foreword

A new edition of Orwell's early work, showing the origins of his commitment to social justice.

Product details

• Authors: George Orwell
• Assisted by: Jaron Murphy (Introduction)
• Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781804172278
• ISBN: 978-1-80417-227-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Essential Gothic, SF & Dark Fantasy; ESSENTIAL GOTHIC SF DARK FANTA
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History; Fiction, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, autobiographies; George Orwell