Homage To Catalonia

by George Orwell

Overview

Homage to Catalonia is both a memoir of Orwell's experience at the front in the Spanish Civil War.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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789389847185
Publisher:	Delhi Open Books
Publication date:	02/03/2020
Pages:	266
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

George Orwell (1903–1950), the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, was an English novelist, essayist, and critic. He was born in India and educated at Eton. After service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, he returned to Europe to earn his living by writing. 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 1984 (1949), which brought him worldwide fame.