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Orwell in Spain

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241418017

  • Length: 416  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 23mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 303g

  • RRP: £12.99

Orwell in Spain

  • George Orwell

  • Peter Davison (Edited by)

  • Christopher Hitchens (Introducer)

Including Homage to Catalonia

'Spain not only defined Orwell as an individual, it also gave him his first glimpse of totalitarianism' D. J. Taylor, Guardian

George Orwell's experience of the Spanish Civil War had a transformative effect on his life and work. This volume brings together his complete writings on the war, including Homage to Catalonia, his searing memoir of fighting in the conflict and the bitter betrayal that followed. The powerful journalism, essays, letters and pamphlets also collected here show his resolution to tell the truth about what happened amid a 'crop of lies' from both the Communist Party and the British press, while in 'Looking Back on the Spanish War' he remembers the heroism and decency of the ordinary people he encountered.

Edited by Peter Davison with an Introduction by Christopher Hitchens

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241418017

  • Length: 416  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 23mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 303g

  • RRP: £12.99

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George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia.

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