Homage to Catalonia (collins Classics)
HarperCollins Publishers · Paperback · January 21, 2021
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
We earn from qualifying purchases.
- Who it’s for
- A layered read for anyone tracing politics through lived experience and literary style.
- Genres
- Spanish & Portuguese History, Revolutionary History, Lives in History
- Published
- HarperCollins Publishers, January 21, 2021
Nearest books
Matched by what the books are about, then ordered by what their readers also loved.
The Sun Also RisesErnest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway47% match
For Whom the Bell TollsErnest Hemingway, Campbell Scott55% match
A Farewell to ArmsErnest Hemingway46% match
WeYevgeny Zamyatin, Bela Shayevich49% match
Naples '44Norman Lewis, Alex Kershaw49% match
Brave New WorldAldous Huxley, John Sutherland50% match
Under FireHenri Barbusse46% match
ChurchillAndrew Roberts, Stephen Thorne49% match
For younger readers: Good Night, Mr. Tom, Hear Ye Mortals, Who Was Winston Churchill?
Start with three books, and this one can be the first.
Members get a new edition every morning: a route out from their books to essays, research and talks, with the reason for each.
Start with this bookAbout this book
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. In 1936, George Orwell volunteered as a soldier in the Spanish Civil War. In Homage to Catalonia , first published just before the outbreak of World War II, Orwell documents the chaos and bloodshed of that moment in history and the voices of those who fought against rising fascism.
Continue reading
His experience of the civil war would spark a significant change in his own political views, which readers today will recognise in much of his later literary work; a rage against the threat of totalitarianism and control.
Politics, Lived
A layered read for anyone tracing politics through lived experience and literary style.
Come here for
- memoir with political weather
- classic prose, unsentimental and clear
Expect
- historical perspective without tidy closure
- Orwell’s spare, sharply observed voice
Where it sits
| Spanish & Portuguese History | 82% |
|---|---|
| Revolutionary History | 30% |
| Lives in History | 27% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Lives in History
- Military Lives
- 20th-Century History
- Spanish & Portuguese History
- Authors
- George Orwell
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Published
- January 21, 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- Lives in History