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Title: Homage to Catalonia
Author: George Orwell
Narrator: Frederick Davidson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-19-09
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 446 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians
Publisher's Summary:
In 1936, George Orwell went to Spain to report on the civil war and instead joined the P.O.U.M. militia to fight against the Fascists. In this now justly famous account of his experience, he describes both the bleak and the comic aspects of trench warfare on the Aragon front, the Barcelona uprising in May 1937, his nearly fatal wounding just two weeks later, and his escape from Barcelona into France after the P.O.U.M. was suppressed. As important as the story of the war itself is Orwell's analysis of why the Communist Party sabotaged the workers' revolution and branded the P.O.U.M. as Trotskyist, which provides an essential key to understanding the outcome of the war and an ironic sidelight on international Communism. It was during this period in Spain that Orwell learned for himself the nature of totalitarianism in practice, an education that laid the groundwork for his great books Animal Farm and 1984.
©1980 The Estate of the Late Sonia Brownell Orwell; (P)1992 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Critic Reviews:
"[A] triumph.... The audio presentation adds a new dimension to a text which is required reading for any student of the Spanish Civil War." (AudioFile)
