{"product_id":"homage-to-catalonia-by-george-orwell-9780544382046","title":"Homage To Catalonia","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNational Review\u003c\/em\u003e Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Century\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“One of Orwell’s very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War.”—\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eConsidered one of the finest works by a man V. S. Pritchett called “the wintry conscience of a generation,” \u003cem\u003eHomage to Catalonia\u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“No one except George Orwell . . . made the violence and self-dramatization of Spain so burning and terrible.”—Alfred Kazin, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A wise book, one that once read will never be forgotten.”—\u003cem\u003eChicago Sunday Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arotahi Agency","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47642966261996,"sku":"9780544382046","price":53.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780544382046-homage-to-catalonia.jpg?v=1779161653","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/homage-to-catalonia-by-george-orwell-9780544382046","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}