HOMAGE TO CATALONIA (232 pp.)— George Orwell — Harcourt, Brace ($3.50). In December 1936, a 33-year-old Englishman named Eric Blair arrived in Barcelona to have a look at Spain’s civil war and write ...
Adam Hochshild talks about the Spanish Civil War and about “Homage to Catalonia,” George Orwell’s account of his experiences and observations of the conflict.
An exploration of George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia, his first-hand account of fighting in the Spanish Civil War and the lessons it still carries today. Busted: Trump official revealed rampant ...
Orwell published the text in his 1938 Spanish Civil War memoir, "Homage to Catalonia." The original line read, "One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the ...
"From a very early age," wrote Eric Blair, "perhaps the age of 5 or 6, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer." Blair did indeed grow up to be a writer -- under the pen name of George Orwell.
In any political argument of philosophical significance, everyone wants George Orwell as an ally. To be able to claim that he is so, however, you must first place him on an ideological map and then ...
Shortly after George Orwell received a medical discharge from his militia in the Spanish Civil War, he traveled to see his wife in Barcelona. She greeted him in a hotel lounge with a “sweet smile,” ...
LEE WENGRAF looks at the life and writing of George Orwell on the 100th anniversary of his birth. BIG BROTHER, double-think, thought police: almost everyone is familiar with the bleak portrait of a ...