{"product_id":"homage-to-catalonia-paperback-3","title":"Homage To Catalonia - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeorge Orwell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'If you had asked me why I had joined the militia I should have answered: \"To fight against Fascism,\" and if you had asked me what I was fighting for, I should have answered: \"Common decency.\"'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eHomage to Catalonia\u003c\/em\u003e is George Orwell's account of the Spanish Civil War. It was the last and most mature of Orwell's documentary books and it is a sharp, focused and angry account of the fighting in Spain. The discomforts of trench warfare, his near-death experience of being shot, and his painful and disorientating medical treatment all contribute to the book's gripping immediacy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the same time, Orwell was aware that he was producing a work of art: 'Beware of my partisanship, ' he warns his readers, 'my mistakes of fact, and the distortion inevitably caused by my having seen only one corner of events.' \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLisa Mullen's introduction examines how the book straddles the divide between literature and history, and provides readers and students with a concise explanatory account of the controversies which have grown up around the book since its publication.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Orwell \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLisa Mullen is Teaching Associate in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Film, and a Bye Fellow and Director of Studies at Downing College. He books include \u003cem\u003eMid-Century Gothic: The Uncanny Objects of Modernity in British Literature and Culture after the Second World War\u003c\/em\u003e (Manchester University Press, 2019) and \u003cem\u003eOrwell Unwell: Pathology and the Medical Imaginary in the Fiction and Journalism of George Orwell\u003c\/em\u003e (forthcoming).\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 236\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 22, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47638293086461,"sku":"9789390575121","price":37.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/aXJlSUtjbUJIdDJweExJYmlQaCtHdz09.webp?v=1780452343","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/homage-to-catalonia-paperback-3","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}