{"product_id":"9780547416175","title":"Homage To Catalonia","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNational Review \u003c\/i\u003eTop Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Century\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A wise book, one that once read will never be forgotten.”—\u003ci\u003eChicago Sunday Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120497082608,"sku":"9780547416175","price":15.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780547416175_p0.jpg?v=1763715759","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780547416175","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}