Orwell in Spain

Informationen zum Autor Born in India in 1903 George Orwell moved to England with his family in 1907. He was educated at Eton and joined the Indian Imperial Police, serving five years in Burma before returning to Europe. The period of poverty that followed inspired DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON (1933). In 1937 he published THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER. His political convictions led him to fight for the Republicans in Spain and to write HOMAGE TO CATALONIA. In 1945 ANIMAL FARM was published. Orwell died of TB in 1950. Klappentext Born in India in 1903 George Orwell moved to England with his family in 1907. He was educated at Eton and joined the Indian Imperial Police! serving five years in Burma before returning to Europe. The period of poverty that followed inspired DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON (1933). In 1937 he published THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER. His political convictions led him to fight for the Republicans in Spain and to write HOMAGE TO CATALONIA. In 1945 ANIMAL FARM was published. Orwell died of TB in 1950. Zusammenfassung The volume collects together, for the first time ever, Orwell's writings on his experience of the Spanish Civil War - the chaos at the Front, the futile young deaths for what became a confused cause, the antique weapons and the disappointment many British Socialists felt on arriving in Spain to help. ORWELL IN SPAIN includes the complete text of HOMAGE TO CATALONIA.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Davison, Christopher Hitchens, George Orwell
• Assisted by: Peter Davison (Editor), Christopher Hitchens (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.05.2001
• EAN: 9780141185163
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118516-3
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Spain, Memoirs, HISTORY / Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other), HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 (Spanish Civil War period), Civil wars