Homage to Catalonia
By: George Orwell ; with a foreword by Adam Hochschild ; and an introduction by Lionel Trilling
Contributors: Hochschild, Adam, writer of foreword; Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975, writer of introduction
Edition: First Mariner books edition.
Publisher: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780544382046
Subjects: British Personal narratives; Soldiers; Travel; History; Biography; English Authors
Description: 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 "democracy 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.

Considered one of the finest works by a man V. S. Pritchett called "the wintry conscience of a generation," *Homage to Catalonia* is both Orwell's memoir of his experiences at the front and his tribute to those who died in what he described as 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.