{"product_id":"homage-to-catalonia-9780544382046","title":"Homage to Catalonia","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNational Review \u003c\/i\u003eTop Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Century \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"One of Orwell's very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 1936, originally intending merely to report on the Spanish Civil War as a journalist, George Orwell found himself embroiled as a participant--as a member of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unity. 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. As the politics became tangled, Orwell was pulled into a heartbreaking conflict between his own personal ideals and the complicated realities of political power struggles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Considered one of the finest works by a man V. S. Pritchett called \"the wintry conscience of a generation,\" \u003ci\u003eHomage to Catalonia\u003c\/i\u003e is both Orwell's memoir of his experiences at the front and his tribute to those who died in what he called a fight for common decency. This edition features a new foreword by Adam Hochschild placing the war in greater context and discussing the evolution of Orwell's views on the Spanish Civil War. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"No one except George Orwell . . . made the violence and self-dramatization of Spain so burning and terrible.\"-- Alfred Kazin, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A wise book, one that once read will never be forgotten.\"--\u003ci\u003eChicago Sunday Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mariner Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/19\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780544382046\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d","brand":"George Orwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36638472241308,"sku":"9780544382046","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_34a0b8ce-bd78-46cf-b4d6-e92249907b9e.jpg?v=1603847371","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/homage-to-catalonia-9780544382046","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}