{"product_id":"9780544382046_homage-to-catalonia","title":"Homage To Catalonia","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNational Review \u003c\/em\u003eTop Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Century\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “One of Orwell’s very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War.”—\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In 1936, originally intending merely to report on the Spanish Civil War as a journalist, George Orwell found himself embroiled as a participant—as a member of the Workers’ Party of Marxist Unity. Fighting against the Fascists, he described in painfully vivid and occasionally comic detail life in the trenches—with a “democratic army” composed of men with no ranks, no titles, and often no weapons—and his near fatal wounding. 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Considered one of the finest works by a man V. S. Pritchett called “the wintry conscience of a generation,” \u003cem\u003eHomage to Catalonia\u003c\/em\u003e is both Orwell’s memoir of his experiences at the front and his tribute to those who died in what he called a fight for common decency. This edition features a new foreword by Adam Hochschild placing the war in greater context and discussing the evolution of Orwell’s views on the Spanish Civil War.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “No one except George Orwell . . . made the violence and self-dramatization of Spain so burning and terrible.”— Alfred Kazin, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A wise book, one that once read will never be forgotten.”—\u003cem\u003eChicago Sunday Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"George Orwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46898333515925,"sku":"9780544382046","price":5.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780544382046_3cf0b035-14b3-465e-87b4-545466a9decb.jpg?v=1776888304","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780544382046_homage-to-catalonia","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}