Homage to Catalonia
$18.95
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
20 January 2021
Summary
‘If you had asked me why I had joined the militia I should have answered: “To fight against Fascism,” and if you had asked me what I was fighting for, I should have answered: “Common decency.”’
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell’s account of the Spanish Civil War. It was the last and most mature of Orwell’s documentary books and it is a sharp, focused and angry account of the fighting in Spain. The discomforts of trench warfare, his near-death experience of being shot, and …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198838418 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0198838417 |
| Author: | George Orwell, Lisa Mullen |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 20 January 2021 |
| Weight: | 192g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 129mm x 195mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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Lisa Mullen is Teaching Associate in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Film, and a Bye Fellow and Director of Studies at Downing College. Her books include Mid-Century Gothic: The Uncanny Objects of Modernity in British Literature and Culture after the Second World War (Manchester University Press, 2019) and Orwell Unwell: Pathology and the Medical Imaginary in the Fiction and Journalism of George Orwell (forthcoming).
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