Homage to Catalonia

Homage to Catalonia

Homage to Catalonia is political journalist and novelist George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish Civil War. The first edition was published in 1938. The book was not published in the United States until February 1952. The American edition had a preface written by Lionel Trilling. The only translation published in Orwell's lifetime was into Italian, in December 1948. A French translation made by Yvonne Davet – with whom Orwell corresponded, commenting on her translation and providing explicatory notes – in 1938-39, was not published until...
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Author:George Orwell
Genre:Non-fiction, Autobiography, Biography, Politics
Year published:1938
Number of editions:26

Author of Homage to Catalonia

George Orwell
George Orwell
June 25, 1903 - January 21, 1950
Birthplace:Motihari
Education:Eton College, St Cyprian's School

Eric Arthur Blair , better known by his psuedonym George Orwell, was an English author. His work is marked by a profound conscientiousness of social injustice, an intense dislike of totalitarianism, and a passion for clarity in language. His two most popular works are 1984 and Animal Farm.

Additional works by George Orwell
BookCopyright DateGenre
Down and Out in Paris and London 1933 Autobiography
Burmese Days Novel
A Clergyman's Daughter Novel
Keep the Aspidistra Flying Novel
The Road to Wigan Pier 1937 Autobiography
Coming Up for Air Fiction
Animal Farm August 17, 1945 Satire
Nineteen Eighty-Four June 8, 1949 Utopian and dystopian fiction
Shooting an Elephant
Why I Write Non-fiction
The lion and the unicorn
George Orwell Fiction
The Orwell Reader
A Kind of Compulsion
Orwell and the Dispossessed
Our Job Is to Make Life Worth Living
Orwell in Spain
1984, Level 4, Penguin Readers Fiction
Orwell and Politics
I Belong to the Left
All Propaganda Is Lies
A Patriot after All
Collect Essay Orwell
Facing Unpleasant Facts
Essays
Smothered under Journalism
A collection of essays
Collected Essays Journals Volume Uk
Keeping Our Little Corner Clean
Orwell's England
Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters, Vol. 1
Two Wasted Years
I Have Tried to Tell the Truth
It Is What I Think
Dickens, Dali and Others
Animal Farm and Related Readings Fiction
Fighting in Spain Non-fiction
Critical essays
Skotnyi dvor
war commentaries
Dans La Deche a Paris Et a Londres
Ānimal phāṃ
Talking to India
Catalogne libre, 1936-1937
Une histoire birmane
Los Dias de Birmania
Age Like This 1920-1940
domineesdochter
Schriftsteller und der Leviathan
University of Florida
Decline Of The English Murder And Other Essays
Englhander
Kolgosp tvaryn
Orwell
république des animaux
Auftauchen, um Luft zu holen
1984' i esse raznykh let
Illustrated 1984 Poster
LA Granja De Los Animales/Animal Farm
Tage in Burma
Spark Notes Animal Farm
Et vive l'aspidîstra
Essäer
Erledigt in Paris und London
fattoria degli animali
The Penguin Complete Novels of George Orwell
Cataluña 1937
Hyllning till Katalonien
Denken mit Orwell
My Country Right or Left 1940-1943
Tragédie Birmane
revolução dos bichos
James Burnham and The managerial revolution
Pages from a scullion's diary
1984 And Animal Farm/Book and Cassette
All art is propaganda
Homenaje A Cataluna
Kamerat Napoleon
The Complete Works of George Orwell
Politics and the English language
Happend naar lucht
Rebelion En La Granja
Subir a por aire
English people
Mirukaṅkal paṇṇai
I farma ton zoon
Brak Tchu
Orwell, the war commentaries
Kammerat Napoleon
Penguin essays of George Orwell
Ensayos escogidos
Orwell En Espana
Djurfarmen
Inside The Whale And Other Essays
prevention of literature
vache enragée
England, your England
Hop-picking
War Broadcasts
1984 With Connections
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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Q:
    The book, "Homage to Catalonia" covers which subjects?
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    "Homage to Catalonia" is of the subject matter category: Spanish Civil War
  • Q:
    What year was the work "Homage to Catalonia" first printed?
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    The work debuted in April, 1938.
  • Q:
    "Homage to Catalonia" is in what literary genre?
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    The written work is classified as: Non-fiction.
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    How many pages is the book: "Homage to Catalonia"?
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    The work consists of 232 pages.

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